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GURNEY STREET/WANSEY STREET.

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 3:59 am
by kiwi
Gurney Street was opposite Falmouth Road, in the New Kent Road.Both Gurney St & Deacon St are no longer there.
Wansey Street use to run between Gurney Street & Walworth Road c1930.Now runs between Walworth Road & Brandon Street 2020.
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Devastation after a unexploded,undetected bomb detonated probably over a year after it was dropped in Gurney Street, SE London, on 6 June 1942
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c1947.
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Gurney Street about 1970. At the far end is the junction with Deacon Street and the Duke of Gloucester public house.

Elephant & Castle,Wansey Street left, picture taken from the Walworth Road.  X.png
Wansey Street left, picture taken from the Walworth Road.
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Wansey Street left,same location 2020.

Elephant & Castle,Wansey Street 2020,looking towards Walworth Road.  X.jpg
Wansey Street 2020,looking towards Walworth Road.

Wansey Street in 1972 and today, 50 years later. The former Surrey Tabernacle and then Borough Synagogue (from 1927) left. Bottom picture same location 2022.  X..png
Wansey Street in 1972 and today, 50 years later. The former Surrey Tabernacle and then Borough Synagogue (from 1927) left. Bottom picture same location 2022.
Elephant & Castle,Wansey Street, with Brandon Street at the far end, 2020.  X.jpg
Wansey Street, with Brandon Street at the far end, 2020.

Re: GURNEY STREET/WANSEY STREET.

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2020 4:30 am
by kiwi
Gurney Street, VE Day street party. Mrs. Baker is at the end of the table in the foreground, Mrs. Willis is in the background at right. Gurney Street was later demolished as part of the development of the Heygate Estate.
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Re: GURNEY STREET/WANSEY STREET.

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2021 2:19 am
by kiwi
Gurney Street c1970, The Duke of Gloucester Pub.  X.png
Gurney Street (right) c1970, The Duke of Gloucester Pub. Deacon Street left.

Re: GURNEY STREET/WANSEY STREET.

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 3:11 am
by kiwi
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Picture states Wansey Street, 1955. Maybe someone can tell us who the people are.
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GURNEY STREET.

Re: GURNEY STREET/WANSEY STREET.

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2022 10:17 pm
by kiwi
I may be wrong on this but the ladies in the picture above are possibly standing outside number 55 next to the then gap, as I can’t see any gap behind them.
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Wansey Street.
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Wansey Street 2022.