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Lower Road, Rotherhithe Free Church, c1905 The houses in the top picture are №s 12-16 (right to left), the Free Church itself is the building out of frame to the left but clearly the houses - or at least № 12 - were associated with the church. The church became the library after WWII. The houses fa...

kiwi wrote:110 SOUTHWARK PARK ROAD, GRAMMAR SCHOOL, FIRST WORLD WAR. NOT SURE WHICH SCHOOL, POSSIBLY A PRIVATE ONE, DOE’S ANYONE KNOW??

110 Southwark Park Road is the address of the photographer, Sydney Angle, not of the school.

Rydal Boys club, Bermondsey. Can anyone place where this was. The photo appears to have been taken at the Bovington tank museum, presumably on a daytrip or holiday. All I can find is that Rydal Penrhos School in Colwyn Bay had ‘strong links’ with the Bermondsey Settlement in Farncombe Street. Both ...

Bryant's Alley, Rotherhithe, c.1930. This one’s really confusing, and apparently it always has been. There is an alley marked on old OS maps as Bryan Court in Rotherhithe that ran between Bryan Road (formerly Trinity Road) and Rotherhithe Street (formerly Trinity Street), where Bryan House now stan...

kiwi wrote:Picture states Rotherhithe Street.

The building on the right faced with rusticated stucco and with projecting lamp and sign bracket (but no helpful sign!) is the Duke's Head at 268 Rotherhithe Street. The large house in the distance is № 187. The Amos Estate now stands on the right.

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...

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 ...

Busgirl wrote:Does anyone know where the bus depot was.

East London is a big place with lots of bus garages, but Bermondsey isn't in east London. Do you know her home address?

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...

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...