Jacob

Statue of a brewery dray horse on Queen Elizabeth Street.

JACOB
The Circle Dray Horse

The famous courage dray horses were stabled
on this site from the early nineteenth
century and delivered beer around London
from the brewery on Horselydown Lane
by Tower Bridge.
In the sixteenth century the area became
known as Horselydown, which derives from
"Horse-lie-down", a description of working
horses resting before crossing London Bridge
into the CIty of London.
Jacob was commissioned by
Jacobs Island Company and Farlane Properties
as the centepiece of the Circle
to commemorate the history of the site.
He was flown over London by helicopter
into Queen Elizabeth Street to launch
the Circle in October 1987.

The Circle is the complex of flats surrounding the statue. They are finished with rather fetching blue tile bricks.