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Newington workhouse built in 1850 at 182 Westmorland Road, was called Newington Lodge in 1930s.

IF ONLY. X.png Yep! I remember.png :) Spices (Shad Thames), Hops, Fish and yes even Horses and you get a flash back to them places so long ago. Even today when the Steam Train passes near our place, first we see the smoke, them the clicker-de- clack from the track, you get the smell of the smoke th...

The Shot Tower was in Old Shot Tower Wharf which was off Commercial Road and near to where Gabriel’s Wharf is today.

Lant Place now Sawyer Street. The pub is on the corner with Southwark Bridge Road and is now called Great Guns Social, formerly known as The Escape and the Goldsmiths Arms. A Dickensian character called Bob Sawyer lived in Lant Street, opposite Lant Place, so it is more than likely that Sawyer Stree...

Following a telephone call, police found two sacks containing £50,000 of stolen money in this phone box, wrong phone box.

BLOW FOOTBALL.

Top of the picture you can see a bus, behind that is the two buildings in the 2019 picture.

Marlborough Grove, 1963, looking towards Old Kent Road, Phoenix Primary School centre.