STAPLE STREET

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A factory was established on Staple Street, Long Lane, Bermondsey, 1867 The Bermondsey factory was demolished in 1935, and replaced by a housing estate. Acquired by Crosse & Blackwell in 1930, who merged operations with their Keiller jam and confectionery subsidiary.

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1911 - Bermondsey women's uprising Pink’s women strikers in 1911

1935 when the Pink’s Factory was demolished to make way for Dunkirk House and Crayford House

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Dunkirk House. 2017

Crayford House. 2017

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Pinks, the company was founded by Edward Pink in 1860 when he was aged 33. He had moved to London from Hampshire to serve an apprenticeship with a grocer.
With a large factory in Staple Street, off Long Lane in Bermondsey, at the end of the 19th century E & T Pink were said to be the largest producers of jam in the world. No trace remains of the company today, or the factory, and the once famous brand has disappeared and remembered now mainly for a history of bad labour relations.

Staple Street, Pinks Jam Factory.

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Staple Street,looking towards Long Lane c1915

Staple Street,Pinks Factory c1915

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Staple Street,1913.

Staple Street, Tabard Estate c1913.

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Dobb's Cross, Bermondsey c1913. Dobb's Cross was a small street off the south side of Staple Street, roughly where Tabard House in Manciple Street stands now. These three streets ran between Staple Street and Delph Street.

Dobb's Cross, Bermondsey c1913, near Tabard Street.

Stannage, from Delph Street, Southwark c1913. The buildings on the left are the back of a Sunday School.

Upper Mill Street. Alice Sharp's chandler's shop on the far corner at 33 Staple (bottom left) c1913.

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Staple Street, Pinks Jam Factory.

Staple Street, Pink’s jar found on the Isle of Wight.

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