SHERSTON PLACE/DRAPER STREET/NEWINGTON BUTTS

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SHERSTON PLACE/DRAPER STREET/NEWINGTON BUTTS

Postby kiwi » Thu Mar 28, 2019 2:22 am

Sherston Place in Bermondsey. By 1900, the living conditions in Bermondsey were awful. There were known examples of nine people living in one room and one tap serving 25 houses with no sanitation. Conditions remained bad well into the 20th century.
Sherston Place was off Newington Butts and was once called Swan Place. At one time Cross Street,later changed to Draper Street and both ran from Walworth Road to Newington Butts. Draper Street was built over in the 1960s by the Elephant and Castle development.
Sherston Place in Bermondsey,Elephant & Castle c1920..jpg
Sherston Place in Bermondsey,Elephant & Castle c1920.
DRAPER STREET, ELEPHANT & CASTLE 1957.jpg
DRAPER STREET, 1957,looking towards Newington Butts.>>>>>

Draper House and Sherston Court are reminders of those earlier years.
Sherston Court 1988,Elephant & Castle.jpg
Sherston Court 1988
Sherston Court in foreground and Draper House in background 1988.jpg
Sherston Court in foreground and Draper House in background 1988.

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Re: SHERSTON PLACE/DRAPER STREET/NEWINGTON BUTTS

Postby kiwi » Wed Nov 06, 2019 2:09 am

Newington Butts, Clock Tower, Southwark, c1906.   X.png
Newington Butts, Clock Tower, Southwark, c1906. Draper Street would
have been on the right at far end.
Newington Butts, roughly the same location as the 1906 picture, the Clock Tower  would have been behind the trees on the left.  X.png
Newington Butts, 2018, roughly the same location as the 1906 picture, the Clock Tower would have been behind the trees on the left, Elephant & Castle straight in front.

Newington Butts 1930. X.png
Newington Butts 1930.
Newington Butts, Brune Place, formally Rose Court, roughly opposite the clock tower.  X,.png
Newington Butts, Brune Place, formally Rose Court, roughly opposite the clock tower.




Newington Butts 1820.   X.jpg
1820.
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Re: SHERSTON PLACE/DRAPER STREET/NEWINGTON BUTTS

Postby kiwi » Sun Oct 24, 2021 2:44 am

Draper Street, Elephant and Castle, exterior of Draper House. X..png
Draper Street, Elephant and Castle, exterior of Draper House.
Newington Butts, Draper Street, Elephant & Castle, c1958.  X..png
Draper Street, Elephant & Castle, c1958.
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Re: SHERSTON PLACE/DRAPER STREET/NEWINGTON BUTTS

Postby kiwi » Wed Nov 24, 2021 4:31 am

Draper House, in Draper Street, c1997. looking west across Walworth Road to Draper House, Draper Estate, from Claydon House on the Heygate Estate. Elephant Road right of the bridge.
Draper Street, Draper House, Elephant & Castle, c1997.  X..png


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