BermondseyBoy

Pickle Herring Street in the 1947 photo is the street winding through the warehouses, it had been here for many years but has now disappeared along with all the warehouses lining this stretch of the Thames in the redevelopment of this area of the south bank for City Hall (the building that appears to lean backwards in the 2015 photo), the home of the Mayor of London and the Greater London Authority, along with the public open space created up to Tower Bridge.

Pickle Herring St,Shad Thames,Tooley St.1947

Pickle Herring Street.2015.

I live in Toronto (ex Camberwell guy). One thing we do not have here is wonderful street names like this. I get a kick out of so many great street names in London. Frying Pan alley and so on

Pickle Herring Street: by Vine Lane

The mid-17th century copper half penny token measures 20.6 mm and weighs 2.31 grams. It was issued in the name of Edward Brent in 1668 and attributed to a tradesman of that name who operated a business from Pickle Herring Stairs on the south bank of the River Thames in Southwark. Between 1647 and 1652 Edward Brent is described as a “lime man”, someone employed in the trade and manufacture of burnt lime. However, those entries from 1655 to 1661 alternatively list Edward as a “shipwright”.


This area was the site of the earliest Delftware kilns in England, established around 1618 and the area became famous for producing a particular variety of Delftware called, Pickle Herring pottery.
It looks like a Kiln & Bear on the coin, so maybe James Acrigg was a Dutch Potter.

Pickle Herring Street used to run along the Thames, from Morgan's Lane to Tower Bridge Road, past today's City Hall. I think this is looking towards Morgans Lane. The building and Pickle Herring Street no longer exist.