DescriptionCardinal Cap Alley, Cardinal's Wharf - geograph.org.uk - 888450.jpg
English: Cardinal Cap Alley, Cardinal's Wharf No 49 Bankside, the house on the left is a three-story early 18th century building. On the right, Nos. 50-52 Bankside is the Provost's Lodging belonging to the Provost of Southwark Cathedral.
In between the houses is Cardinal Cap Alley which once led to a tavern, drinking house or brothel called the Cardinal's Hat. Until the 1600s Bankside was a bawdy place, full of taverns, brothels then called 'stews' from the stewhouses, which were steam baths doubling as brothels, there was bear and bull-baiting pits and, in the time of Shakespeare, public theatres.
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