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Three Cranes Lane


City, Upper Thames Street. (EC4) "So called, not only of a sign of Three Cranes at a Tavern door, but rather of three strong cranes of timber, placed on the Vintrie Wharf by the Thames side, to crane up Wines there." (Reference: Strype's Stow, Bk. iii, p. 2)

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