Joiners Arms, Southwark
of Crosby Row, Southwark, London.
No longer extant.
1771 'On Thursday the 18th of March, at a meeting of several respectable inhabitants of the Borough of Southwark, to open the Joiners Arms, an elegant public house on a new connection, with fire-place in the center of the tap-room, supported by four iron columns, the fire fronting four ways, in a pleasant new row of houses, adjoining King-street, Snow-fields, near St. Margaret's-hill ; it was proposed that the row called Crosby-row, in honour of the present truly worthy Lord-Mayor, which was agreed by the whole company. The ceremony of naming it was performed with libations of good English Burgundy, &c. amidst the acclamations of the company, who drank several patriotic healths and concluded in good harmony.'[1]
Evidently a very early example of the use of cast iron columns in building construction.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Kentish Gazette - Saturday 6 April 1771