"The Dukes of Norfolk are better known as the Howard family, which indirectly provided two wives to King Henry VIII. After falling from favour in 1546, Norfolk was stripped of his dukedom and imprisoned in the Tower of London, only just managing to avoid being executed because King Henry VIII died before it was carried out."
"The manor house later passed to the fourth duke, who sold the Lambeth estate in 1559. Over the next few decades, it was chopped up into smaller plots and resold, and by 1680, the house was being used as a pottery by James Barston. This is where the name 'Lambeth Delftware' originates."
"Norfolk Row pretty much emerged as a defined passage in around the middle of the 1700s, and shows up in Horwood's map as lined with houses on one side and still open fields on the other."
"The distillery would later become the Gordons of its time, as Hodges' sweetened cordial gin was sold widely across London. The last owner was Fred Hodge, who devoted most of his energy to firefighting instead of gin distilling."
The Lambeth Bridge area was once the principal London residence of the Dukes of Norfolk, known as the Howard family. After losing favor in 1546, the duke was imprisoned but avoided execution. The manor house was sold in 1559 and later became a pottery site, giving rise to Lambeth Delftware. The area developed industrially, with Norfolk Row emerging in the mid-1700s. A distillery opened around 1720, expanding significantly and becoming well-known for its gin. The distillery closed in 1912, and the building later served as the Met Police's Lost Property.
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