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The Sun Wharf will open on 16 September 2025 at 48\u201350 Tooley Street, reclaiming historic brick railway arches once home to wharves and the London Dungeon and sitting above layers of industrial and prehistoric remains.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A new Wetherspoon pub, The Sun Wharf, is due to open on 16 September 2025 in one of London\u2019s most frequented transport hubs, occupying 48\u201350 Tooley Street beside the entrance to London Bridge station. According to the company, the site makes use of the distinctive brick railway arches that have long marked this stretch of the riverside, and the chain says the venue will welcome its first customers on that date.<\/p>\n
Images released by the operator and reported in the press show an interior that leans into the building\u2019s industrial past: exposed brick arches, framed portraits on the walls and a distinctive swirled carpet that the company says complements the venue\u2019s historic fabric. The company\u2019s published material about the new pub highlights the visual nods to the site\u2019s previous uses while describing the fit-out as aiming to balance heritage and contemporary pub design.<\/p>\n
The arches themselves carry layers of commercial history. Before becoming the site of a visitor attraction, they were occupied by importers and provision agents who served the busy riverside warehouses. Much of the immediate area was reworked in the 1980s during the No.1 London Bridge development, when Fenning\u2019s Wharf and Sun Wharf were removed; archaeological work linked to that redevelopment uncovered prehistoric features, including Bronze Age burials, underscoring how many centuries of activity lie beneath modern London.<\/p>\n
That later visitor attraction was the London Dungeon, which first opened on Tooley Street in 1974 as a waxwork-style exhibition of grim episodes from the capital\u2019s past. The Dungeon\u2019s official site and contemporary accounts record that the Tooley Street location closed in January 2013; the attraction subsequently relocated to County Hall on the South Bank and was reconfigured into a more theatrical, actor-led experience alongside other Merlin Entertainments properties.<\/p>\n
The Sun Wharf opening forms part of a broader pattern along the Thames of adapting former warehouse and wharf buildings for leisure and retail. Nearby Hay\u2019s Wharf, for example, was conserved and redeveloped into Hay\u2019s Galleria during the same era of riverside renewal: what had been a major produce depot was remodelled into a mixed-use arcade beneath a glass roof, preserving facades and adding public art and commercial space as part of regeneration efforts.<\/p>\n
Wetherspoon\u2019s own history pages and the pub\u2019s information sheet set out the address, the opening date and the links to the site\u2019s past, framing the new pub as both a convenient stop for commuters and a venue that offers a tangible connection to local history. The company\u2019s materials emphasise the continuity of use along Tooley Street even as the functions of the buildings have shifted dramatically over the decades.<\/p>\n
For visitors who choose to drink where others worked, fought and were buried centuries earlier, The Sun Wharf will be another chapter in a long story of reinvention on the Thames\u2019s north bank \u2014 a place where archaeological records testify to prehistoric activity and modern leisure amenity sits atop layers of the city\u2019s industrial and social past.<\/p>\n