the Shades

Names

  • the Shades

Street/Area/District

  • the Shades

Descriptions

from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)

the Shades

A celebrated tavern, which stood in Upper Thames Street and at Old Swan Stairs, built out from Old Fishmongers' Hall (mentioned by Wheatley, s.v.).

Old Shades Wharf still commemorates the name.