Tower Bridge Road

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Re: Tower Bridge Road

Postby fosney » Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:17 pm

Tower Bridge Road

Picture taken from the cab of a Fire Engine 1946

In todays picture we can still recognise the area but changes have been made
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Re: Tower Bridge Road

Postby rodebdon » Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:19 pm

Fantastic picture Joe. It's lovely to see all these black and white photographs, so much more atmosphere than colour.

Rod.

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Re: Tower Bridge Road

Postby fosney » Wed Mar 01, 2017 3:57 pm

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Tower Bridge Road--- John Feaver Works

Picture from 1950 looking across Bermondsey Square towards Tower Bridge Road. The picture is dominated by the John Feaver Works in Tower Bridge Road which ran more or less from the corner of Grange Walk to Long Walk. Opposite the works was an Esso Filling Station The Grange Service Station which formed part of Bermondsey Square. The building to the left of the picture behind the lamp post is on the corner of Abbey Street and Tower Bridge Road and was in front of Abbey Buildings can anyone recall its name, Long Walk ran behind this building and rejoined Tower Bridge Road there was a small pub in the corner. On the google view in todays picture the site is still derelict but the road which used to be Long Walk remains Feavers was on the left where the houses are and the service station was on the right opposite the houses.



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Re: Tower Bridge Road

Postby fosney » Wed Mar 01, 2017 3:59 pm

Posted by rstupple2



Tower Bridge Road--- John Feaver Works
Picture from 1950 looking across Bermondsey Square towards Tower Bridge Road. The picture is dominated by the John Feaver Works in Tower Bridge Road which ran more or less from the corner of Grange Walk to Long Walk. Opposite the works was an Esso Filling Station The Grange Service Station which formed part of Bermondsey Square. The building to the left of the picture behind the lamp post is on the corner of Abbey Street and Tower Bridge Road and was in front of Abbey Buildings can anyone recall its name, Long Walk ran behind this building and rejoined Tower Bridge Road there was a small pub in the corner. On the google view in todays picture the site is still derelict but the road which used to be Long Walk remains Feavers was on the left where the houses are and the service station was on the right opposite the houses.


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Hi Joe as I put in an earlier blog my mum lost part of her index finger while working at Feavers.
Rick

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Re: Tower Bridge Road

Postby fosney » Thu Mar 02, 2017 10:15 am

Tower Bridge Road 1931 from the Forum

The pictures are clips from the video on the Forum by Bermodseyboy

The quality of the pictures is superb when considering they were filmed some 80 years ago.
The pictures give a feel of what Tower Bridge Road must have been like some 80 years ago - a busy vibrant maket with stalls stretching from Noel Street to Bermondsey Street with the added curiosity of the bystanders being filmed.
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Re: Tower Bridge Road

Postby fosney » Sat Mar 04, 2017 3:50 pm

Tower Bridge Road --Joyce's Pie and Mash

We hear so much about Manze on Bermondsey Boy and tend to forget Joyce's the other Pie and Mash shop that was in Tower Bridge Road but now Long Gone. But a favourite of Tommy Steele, it stood between Bermondsey Buildings and Compass Court on the other side of the road to Manze and near Aberdour Street
Sorry about picture quality as it was taken from the video but at least we have a record

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Re: Tower Bridge Road

Postby kiwi » Sun Mar 05, 2017 7:40 am

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TOWER BRIDGE ROAD,Butchers & other shops.
25-31 Tower Bridge Road, Bermondsey, London, 1900.
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Re: Tower Bridge Road

Postby fosney » Mon Mar 06, 2017 10:53 am

Tower Bridge Road

Troc-ette Theatre, Tower Bridge Road in the 1930s, and an advert showing what you got for your money in those days, from 6d to 1/6d and Matinees at 6d and 9d what a bargain (if you had any money).
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Re: Tower Bridge Road

Postby fosney » Mon Mar 06, 2017 11:52 am

Tower Bride Road

176 Tower Bridge Road, is another building that should receive Grade II Listed Status due to it's history within the borough.

Before the opening of this building the Technical College for the City of London Leather Industry was resident at the Herolds Institute in conjunction with the Leather Sellers Company of the City of London, the LCC, and the Borough Polytechnic. In the original picture the name of the building can be seen across the building below the upper floors. Opened in 1909 by the Lord Mayor of London, this building became the Leather Sellers Technical College, instruction was given on the practical, theoretical and scientific side of the practice of leather manufacture. The College in its time contained the most up to date machinery in the world, which allowed students to carry out most processes in leather manufacture.

Today, the building is known as Osteopath House, and is the Head Office of the General Osteopath Council, who regulate the practice of Osteopathy in the UK.

From the old picture, we can see the building next door was the George Payne Coffee Warehouse in Tower Bridge Road.
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Re: Tower Bridge Road

Postby fosney » Mon Mar 06, 2017 12:51 pm

Tower Bridge Road

Another advert from the 1930s the John Feaver Ltd factory and the products that were produced
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