Modern 'City Living' development on the site of the former Sheaf Brewery. "Brewing began on this site in 1837 as Bradley's Soho Brewery. It was taken over in 1876 by Kirkby and Ward (later Ward's) who had occupied the Sheaf Island Brewery, Effingham Street, from which the brewery derives is present name. Some stone buildings from the 1850s, a three storey brick block converted from back to backs and the plain brick brewery tower of 1874 have been submerged within residential development. . . Relocated entrance gateway with sheaves of corn and the brewery name in raised letters. (Harman and Minnis 2004, 225-226). Fragmentary legibility of former Brewery.