Three Cranes Wharf
Names
- Three Cranes Wharf
- Three Crane Wharf
- Three Cranes in the Vintry
Street/Area/District
- Three Cranes Wharf
Maps & Views
- 1553-9 Londinum (Braun & Hogenberg, 1572): Thre Crane
- 1553-9 London ("Agas Map" ca. 1633): Three Cranes
- 1560 London (Jansson, 1657): Three Crane
- 1593 London (Norden, 1653 - British Library): Three Cranes
- 1593 London (Norden, 1653 - Folger): Three Cranes
- 1600 Civitas Londini - prospect (Norden): Three Cranes
- 1600 Civitas Londini - prospect (Norden): Three Cranes
- 1647 Londinvm - prospect (Hollar): The 3. Cranes
- 1658 London (Newcourt & Faithorne): 3 Cranes
- 1666 London after the fire (Bowen, 1772): Three Cranes
- 1710 ca. Prospect of London (van Keulen): Three Cranes
- 1720 London (Strype): Three Crane Wharf
- 1725 London map & prospect (Covens & Mortier): Three Cranes Wharf
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Three Cranes
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Three Cranes Wharf
Adjoining Red Lion Wharf east and Southwark Bridge west. In Vintry Ward (P.O. Directory).
First mention: Rocque, 1746.
from the Grub Street Project, by Allison Muri (2006-present)
The Three Cranes in the Vintry, the only one of the "Wharfes and Keyes for Ladinge and Discharginge Places, within the Porte of London, for Merchandises" which was "appointed to be an open Place for the landing and discharging of all manner of Wines and Oyles," and one of the 3 which were appointed "to be open Places for the landing or discharging of Pitch, Tar, Flax, Iron, Wainscott, Clapboards, Deals, Ores, Rafters, Ashes to make Soap, Osmunds Eeles, Cables, Halsers, Hemp, Stones, Chests, Playing Tables; and all manner of Fish and Hops: And to be open Places for the Shipping and lading of any Woollen Cloths of the Price of six Pounds or under the Cloth, Cony Skins, and for no other Merchandises" in the Order for the Wharfs, 1559.—Strype (1720), book 2, chapter 3, p. 49.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Three Crane wharf, three Crane stairs.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Three-Crane-Wharf, Upper Thames-Street, at the S. end of the last.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
[Three Cranes-wharf] The first stone of the northern abutment [of Southwark Bridge], upon the site of the ancient Three Cranes-wharf, was laid by the Lord Mayor (Alderman Wood), and the bridge was opened to the public in April, 1819.