In the 1860s from the Borough High Street to Lombard Street, just before Southwark Bridge Road It was called Mint Street before it changed to Marshalsea Road, sometime before the 1900s ?. Mint Street is still there (2017) a turning off Marshalsea Road.
MINT STREET.
MINT STREET.
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Mint Street -
Mint Street was named appropriately after the Mint which was authorised by King Henry VIII and set up in Suffolk Place in about 1543. Suffolk Place being a mansion on the west side of Borough High Street.
Again in Mint Street in 1729 a new brick building for receiving and employing the poor of the parish was constructed. It opened at Christmas of that year and was The Workhouse. A further building was opened in 1872 and further additions were made in 1844 and 1859 to home some 624 inmates.
Nothing much seems to have changed in Mint Street in the recent few years. The buildings on the right as we reach Weller Street may well have been shops, or perhaps a pub and in the distance the Peabody Trust Building, Douglas Buildings (1886) still stands.
A record of this area was created in the diaries of John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys and the poverty of the area in the novels by Charles Dickens.
Mint Street was named appropriately after the Mint which was authorised by King Henry VIII and set up in Suffolk Place in about 1543. Suffolk Place being a mansion on the west side of Borough High Street.
Again in Mint Street in 1729 a new brick building for receiving and employing the poor of the parish was constructed. It opened at Christmas of that year and was The Workhouse. A further building was opened in 1872 and further additions were made in 1844 and 1859 to home some 624 inmates.
Nothing much seems to have changed in Mint Street in the recent few years. The buildings on the right as we reach Weller Street may well have been shops, or perhaps a pub and in the distance the Peabody Trust Building, Douglas Buildings (1886) still stands.
A record of this area was created in the diaries of John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys and the poverty of the area in the novels by Charles Dickens.
Re: MINT STREET.
The house on the left (PICTURE ONE) became the vicarage and the remaining houses were converted into a Mission Hall. At the end of the street is the rear of the Evelina Hospital and the building on the right is the front of the Workhouse.
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Remains of the former Mint Street Workhouse (right) on the corner of Weller Street and Mint Street. 1957. Weller Street was called Little Lant Street.
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An open-air performance of Charles Dickens’ ’Oliver Twist’ taking place in Mint Street, on 5 May 1928. Lombard Street is at the end and the building is the Evelina Hospital extension whilst the building on the right housed the offices of St. Saviour’s Union Workhouse. Most of this is now Mint Street Park.
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Mint Street SE1. The Salvation Army preacher and musicians plus audience outside Ilfracombe Buildings just off Marshalsea Road. Douglas Buildings are in front of them. Now all part of Peabody trust. The building in the distance stands on the site of the old St Saviour Union Workhouse.
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