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by Fogbrain
Sat Mar 11, 2023 7:56 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: ENID STREET
Replies: 5
Views: 7039

Re: ENID STREET

ENID STREET 1939. "In the home of Mr. A. Clark: Rats, gnawing holes in the floorboards, make off with whole bars of soap. and steal lunch-packets out of the men's coats if they leave them hanging on the walls. UNBEATABLE BEETLES The kitchen is a black rectangle below ground level. A small pool...
by Fogbrain
Sun Mar 05, 2023 9:31 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: East Lane Bermondsey
Replies: 10
Views: 14060

Re: East Lane Bermondsey

East Street, same location 2022 Both are of East Lane - East Street is that place in Walworth where East Lane market is held! :) Strange thing about Oliver House on the left - check this out on GSV: the colour of the bricks, stock and red, is slightly different from exactly half way along. And alth...
by Fogbrain
Sun Mar 05, 2023 9:15 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: INVILLE ROAD.
Replies: 7
Views: 5606

Re: INVILLE ROAD.

kiwi wrote:I think this is looking down Inville Road from Alvey Street, with The Gloucester Arms Pub on the right. :?
You've been a Kiwi for too long, Kiwi - the sun still shines from the south back here! :D
This is looking up from Villa Street, with the post office and grocer's on the right.
by Fogbrain
Sat Feb 11, 2023 12:23 am
Forum: General Postings
Topic: MYSTERY-DO YOU RECOGNISE THESE PLACES OR PEOPLE?
Replies: 65
Views: 113903

Re: MYSTERY-DO YOU RECOGNISE THESE PLACES?

kiwi wrote:Am I right thinking this was in West Lane. :?
Yes.
by Fogbrain
Tue Oct 18, 2022 11:04 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Dockhead
Replies: 22
Views: 25373

Re: Dockhead

kiwi wrote:Dockhead, 2022, site of the Watermans Arms Pub (brown building)
The brown building was the Swan & Sugarloaf. The Waterman's Arms was on the other side of Dockhead, on the corner with Arnold Place.
by Fogbrain
Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:26 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Tower Bridge
Replies: 53
Views: 53257

Re: Tower Bridge

kiwi wrote:The building that stood out to me is St Johns Horsleydown Vicarage, the white building middle left by the railway line
Hi, Kiwi. I can't work out to which building you refer. St John's had a rectory - it wasn't white and is still standing.
by Fogbrain
Sun Sep 25, 2022 10:26 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Webb Street
Replies: 21
Views: 28871

Re: Webb Street

rodebdon wrote:l was talking to my brother this morning, he was surprised to see the very early picture of Webb Street School and that it was right on the street and not back as we remember it,
The original school building was demolished and a larger one built, around 1912 I think.
by Fogbrain
Sun Sep 18, 2022 10:50 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Rotherhithe Street
Replies: 90
Views: 120803

Re: Rotherhithe Street

Elephant Lane comes from the right opposite Elephant Stairs (to the Thames) down the alley with rubbish, and left of Princess Iron Works. Am I right, that The Torbay pub was on the corner left? Yes, the Torbay was on that corner. Elephnat Lane comes up from St Marychurch Lane where the Ship pub is....
by Fogbrain
Sun Sep 04, 2022 7:12 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Rotherhithe Street
Replies: 90
Views: 120803

Re: Rotherhithe Street

kiwi wrote:This had the address of 31-33 Rotherhithe Street possibly between the Angel Pub and the King’s Stairs.
Princes Iron Works was at the end of Elephant Lane, where Prince's Tower now stands.
by Fogbrain
Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:33 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Rouel Road
Replies: 41
Views: 39566

Re: Rouel Road

Curious fact: both Casby House and Lupin Point are no longer officially part of the Dickens Estate; also Bowley House.

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