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Battle Bridge Lane, Tooley Street SE1. Wilson’s Wharf Fire, 1971.

Fireman still at work on the disused cold storage depot at Wilson's Wharf.

Formerly Mill Lane. Battle Bridge Lane Fire. The fire began at Wilson’s Wharf, which used to be a cold store. – now the Home of Southwark Crown Court - on Battle Bridge Lane, Tooley Street, 1971. Construction workers had been removing insulation from piping when it is thought sparks from their gas-p...

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The two horse heads above the front of this garage workshop are the last clue that is was once a smithy – a blacksmiths.

Picture's taken from roughly the same position.

George Row,Dickens Estate 1988

Treading in tea at Butler's Wharf, c1909-1921. Butler's Wharf occupied most of the riverfront downstream from Tower Bridge to St. Saviour's Dock. Completed in 1873, it was once the largest warehouse complex on the Thames. Butler's Wharf handled general cargoes, mainly foodstuffs such as tea, meat an...

Kings Arms, 251 Tooley Street, Southwark St John Horsleydown SE1.jpg Kings Arms, 251 Tooley Street, Southwark in 1960.jpg Tooley Street, Kings Arms, SE1 - in 2014..jpg Tooley Street 2021, looking down Three Oak Lane. In c1921 there was an Oil Merchant shop on the corner right, now an Off Licence. X...

Hi paperboy. Can’t give you a definite answer regarding Baalzephon Street & Weston Street name change but coming from the Borough it would have only been on the right side of Long Lane that it changed. In the 1830s Baalzephon Street ran from Long Lane towards Tabard Street stopping near Halfway ...

At the top of the picture above in c1921, 41-43 was Midwinter H & Co, wholesale grocers.