Photo's of Bermondsey (Buildings)

Looking for a better photo of the Old Haddon Hall I can remember my mother telling me that during the 1920s the family used to get hand outs to survive from Haddon Hall Baptists and Central Hall Methodists they used to live in Bermondsey Buildings in Leroy Street and if I remember rightly the warehouse in Leroy Street on the right was the Old Tate and Lyle establishment that supplied sugar to Hartleys jam factory across the road.

I remember during the war as a child taking refuge in the sugar factory during an air raid  amongst all the bags of sugar with my mother and grandmother looking back it was the most stupid thing to do for a direct hit would have finished us all off but at least you were away from the shrapnal falling from the sky

Joe Foster

                                                                                                                                             
Spa Road Terraces 1956
Opposite Town Hall 

 
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Snowfields 1935
News Agent and Housing
Looking from number 28 down the street to number 18

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Dunton Road Police Station
The Blitz

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Hepburn and Gale Tannery

St James' Road abt 1952 looking towards Strathnairn Street where the bagwash was on the corner. (That's me and my mum next to the prefabs)
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-paperboy

I only came to live in Bermondsey twenty years ago so didn't recognise your photo of St James' Road. Amazing how much has changed.  I wonder,  do you know if the photo is facing Southwark Park Road/The Blue and if the two turnings are both Strathnairn Street as it is now?

Thanks

I lived here in Gurney Street when i was a baby. My nan Lal and grandad George Beales lived at number 77 with their 2 daughters Mary and Kitty and 5 sons Georgie, twins Ronny and Peter, David and Mickey.

May I use the Bert's photo on www.pie-and-mash.com ?

I only came to live in Bermondsey twenty years ago so didn't recognise your photo of St James' Road. Amazing how much has changed.  I wonder,  do you know if the photo is facing Southwark Park Road/The Blue and if the two turnings are both Strathnairn Street as it is now?Thanks

-thisbe

The photo was taken from here, on the right hand side of St James Road (between the second and third trees outside Townsend House) as you walk from Simms Road to Strathnairn Street, (looking north towards Southwark Park Road).

The positioning of Strathnairn Street hasn't changed and the bagwash was here on the corner of Strathnairn Street and St James's Road. The bit of Strathnain Street on the other side of St James Road (between Monnow Road and St James' Road) has been partially pedestrianised.

Diagonally opposite the bagwash at here was a sweet shop which sold Nielsen's Ice Cream.

I left Bermondsey when I got married in 1971 and as far as I can recall the prefabs were still there, then. They probably remined into the late 70's/early80's, looking at the architectural style of Townsend House as an indicator of when it was built on the same site.

Thanks very much for putting me straight. I've only known the street as it is now, it's interesting to see how different it was.  It seems a shame that the old houses have gone, along with the shops, only to be replaced by the very tiny new ones.

Thanks again

Your right how things have changed in Bermondsey,  its some 50 years since I left and I recognise St James Rd from your original photo with the prefabs and that took me to the Goole Street video of how it is today !
I dont recognise the place all the old houses have gone and replaced by the modern property!   I went the full length of St James Road and truly the only thing that is still the same from all those years ago is going over the old St James railway bridge and at the junction with Catlin Rd and Rolls Rd heading towards Old Kent Rd we find on the left the old Southern Railway Horse Stables just as it was all those years ago I think someone should get a photo of that area before that building disappears into history one for you Bermondsey Boy  The main stables for the Southern Railway were at the corner of Dunton Road and Willow Walk oposite the Greyhound Pub as it was then and behind the Greyhound pub was another entrance to the goods yard on the left as you crossed Dunton Road Bridge.

Another question for some to answer what happend to the Rialto Cinema when did that close ?

Joe Foster
Fosney

Modern picture of the Stable at Catlin Rd junction with st James Road

Hi Fosney

What a great Picture, it looks like a different world in there, you could almost think you are in the Country, until you walk outside and face the Traffic and the Concrete Buildings.
Lets hope it survives for many more years.
Done some homework on the Rialto SPR.
Opened in 1926 (as the Colleen Cinema).
Closed 1961. Proprietors Mistlins Theatres (Westcliff on Sea Ltd), 25 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1. 840 seats. Continuous shows, prices 1s and 1s 9d. Proscenium width 30ft.

Bermondseyboy

Hi Pie_and_Mash

Have just visted your site, keep up the good work.
Would love to see Berts, picture on this site also noticed Tubby Isaacs, brought back some Memories, I think there was another stool there as well called Barneys?

Bermondseyboy

Bermondsey Boy what a load of memories come flooding back when I read all that is written about Bermondsey as it used to be, I see Dunton mentioned a lot I used to live in Lyton Rd and well remember the smell from the stables and seeing the horse and carts coming out of there on their way too work.. Keep the memories flooding in, thank you all from an Aussie Pom..

Forgot to say that I loved the photo's of Spa Rd and the old Barrow Hepburn and Gale tannery.. Cheers Johno

Hi Bermondsey Boy,
No problem using the photos of Tubby Isaacs on your website my friend

Mal
Editor
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The Rialto stayed close for some little while and then re-opened as a bingo hall.

The cinema had a back exit in Trothy Road where you could sneak in, having paid for one friend to get in and opne the door. I got in to see Spartacus that way, being too young too get in at the front door, and no point in paying anyway. Did wonder what all the fuss was about as it was supposed to be close to a porn movie! Not obvious to me at that age!

johnoj

As you seem to go back a long way it seems possibly that you lived at the Dunton Road end of Lynton Road,  can you remember going down Willow Walk and standing outside the goods yard gates as a kid which was oposite Curtis Road waiting for the Southern Railway Scarags and Horse and carts to come out and getting a ride on the tailboard up to Dunton Road before they entered the goods yard behind the pub.

Do you also remember the Carter Paterson Depot at the bottom of Grimscott Street the place was a hive of industry with the work that came out of the goods yard.

By chance your not one of the crowd we used to play football with in Fort Road on the bomb site that used to be the Bakery oposite the flats and  adjacent to the old Police station ?

Joe Foster

Fosney