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- Thu Mar 03, 2022 6:38 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Landrail Place
- Replies: 6
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Re: Landrail Place
We didn't have access to such good maps all those years ago when fosney posted the photo. The c1900 map shows the three cottages in Landrail Place after the other thirteen had been demolished for the widening of the viaduct and before the three new tracks have been laid thereupon. map; Landrail Plac...
- Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:24 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Anchor Street
- Replies: 9
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Re: Anchor Street
Galleywall Road across by the railway arches Galleywall Road is out of shot on the right on the 1950 picture. The John Bull Arch is on the right. The arches are revealed because the buildings on the north side of Southwark Park Road were destroyed in the V2 strikes. The building behind the railway ...
- Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:32 pm
- Forum: General Postings
- Topic: Buses in the blitz
- Replies: 1
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Re: Buses in the blitz
East London is a big place with lots of bus garages, but Bermondsey isn't in east London. Do you know her home address?Busgirl wrote:Does anyone know where the bus depot was.
- Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:21 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: LONDON ROAD
- Replies: 23
- Views: 26338
Re: LONDON ROAD
London Road, Elephant & Castle, c1944. Travel information kiosk. This is Piccadilly Circus, corner of Shaftsbury Avenue. There is a kiosk but the structure beyond it with the London Transport roundel is temporary wartime cladding protecting the staircase down to the underground station tick...
- Mon Feb 28, 2022 9:02 pm
- Forum: General Postings
- Topic: Tracing Bermondsey gran roots
- Replies: 5
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Re: Tracing Bermondsey gran roots
With Shillington Street School you're a bit more lucky. Shillington Street has long gone but the school survives - the same building that your grandmother would have known - and is now apartments. The address is now 181 Este Road but a shiny new plaque at the front says "181. Shillington Road S...
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 9:34 pm
- Forum: General Postings
- Topic: Tracing Bermondsey gran roots
- Replies: 5
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Re: Tracing Bermondsey gran roots
Can I expect to see any original buildings around these areas? Hi, Bermondseyroots1888. You're too late to see Alderminster Road - the last bit vanished maybe 20 or 30 years ago. In fact the stretch of Alderminster Road where 103 was - between Dunton Road and Welsford Street - was completely built ...
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 8:08 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Leathermarket Street
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7872
Re: Leathermarket Street
Board's Buildings ran from Tabard Street to Amicable Row. The photo is looking towards Tabard Street from Amicable Row. The wall on the right was of the South London Boiler Works.kiwi wrote:Board's Buildings, 1913
- Wed Dec 29, 2021 9:19 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Parkers Row
- Replies: 38
- Views: 43270
Re: Parkers Row
No, it was Time & Talents in the former White Hart pub on the corner of George Row and Hickman's Folly.kiwi wrote:T & T Club, The Chapel of White Heart, was this in the RC Holy Trinity Church, Dockhead. ?
- Tue Dec 14, 2021 11:18 pm
- Forum: General Postings
- Topic: MYSTERY-DO YOU RECOGNISE THESE PLACES OR PEOPLE?
- Replies: 66
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Re: MYSTERY-DO YOU RECOGNISE THESE PLACES?
Crosby Row. The pub is the Whitesmith's Arms, converted to flats in 2014. Guy's Hospital tower (the old one, obviously) in the background. This GSV of 2012 shows the pub still trading: https://goo.gl/maps/sCkHt2tpMvWWRZXd9.kiwi wrote:It states Southwark
- Tue Dec 14, 2021 9:38 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Paradise Street
- Replies: 33
- Views: 71766
Re: Paradise Street
That's Huxley's Tenements, named after Thomas Huxley - "Darwin's Bulldog". There's no modern housing there, it's all part of King's Stairs Gardens.kiwi wrote:Paradise Street, Bermondsey c1932. A four-storey building, that no longer exists, having been replaced by modern housing.