Photo's of Bermondsey (Pubs)
Simon the Tanner - 231 Long Lane
Hello Bermondseyboy
The Ship Aground is next door to Dockhead Fire station which was used in the early series of "Londons Burning" where it was called Blackwall( I think). My younger brother was a fireman there in the 1970s. My Nan used to live in Wolsey Street for a while. She used to go into the pub thinking no one had seen her and my brother and his mates would wait till she got to the door and shout out to her from the fire station windows.
Vossy53
i remember my dad drinking in the horns.............i used to sit in the step outside about the early fifties..................
Hi,I we were Aussie backbackers that lived in the area in the early 90s. I lived and worked at St.Johns Tavern and am trying to trace old English mates...I (Dee) worked for Terry and Joey , they also had a pub in Bermondsey where I remember performing badly at pool and drinking too much vodka! Just before we left they put their kids (Sherri and Danny ) into the horns that had been closed awhile ! Love to trace them, or Glynn (Halford) that ran St Johns and Wayne was the son they had at the pub at Bermondsey...can you help..even a surname will suffice
Mat and Dee
Great slideshow - the only one wrong, was the Bricklayers Arms - it was opposite, to the right of that building.
Well spotted Lenny, I don't how that one got in there, proberly lack of concentration?
Comes with age?
Or i was just testing you Bermondsey Lads and Lasses for observation.
I will try and amend this later. Thanks
Bermondseyboy
I remember St. James church in the background vividly, because I used to go to St. James school opposite.
I have never seen the school since we were all evacuated in Sept 1939 and went to Brighton first and then to a village close to Camberly, called Frimley.
The pub is relatively new.
Roy Wilcox
Hi Roymal you are the first person that I have met on this link who went to St James school I went there in the thirties until it shut down when war was decleared. I lived in Spa Rd opposite the Library, when they opened up the schools again I went to Bacon school in Grange Rd near Tower Bridge Rd untill we were evacuated to Northampton for a while.. The only teacher I remember from St James school was the Headmaster Mr Stein, he was pretty handy with the Stick and i felt it a few times. Don't know if you remember the Caretaker there we used to call him 'Bo-Peep" because he was always Peeping at whatever went on.. Ron Johnson
Hi! Ron,
It was great to see your posting above.
Fancy you remembering old Steiny. You are quite correct about the use of the cane, which used to produce welts on the hands.
I don't remember the caretaker, because I was 7 years old when war broke out, but James David Stein had a wife Jean, who was also a teacher there and they had a boy David and girl Jean, although they were insome higher education in Camberly.
My teacher was named Miss String, she used to also dish out malt if we took in a spoon and I will never forget arriving in Brighton with 'C' rations and gas masks in September 1939, after a very long train ride from Waterloo with my four brothers.
When Dunkirk fell in May 1940, we were shipped off to Frimley eight miles from Aldershot.
Talking about his use of the cane, brings back to mind me tearing a brand new raincoat.
You see our parents along with my sister were killed, sheltering under one of the arches on Drurid Street, October 25 1940 and a woman called at the school asking if she could take out a boy and buy some clothes, my raincoat.
My brother two years older than me suggested cutting through the church cemetary.
The gate was locked so we climbed this spiked fence and he said "Jump'. Well I lived with a very old religious couple.
The old lady wrapped it up with a note and I had to take it into school. Stein called the whole school together, held the coat up after telling the school how he was responsible for behaviour with our billets and "Roy, go to the cupboard get the cane". I received six of his best.
The old lady wouldn't repair it but sent to London to my aunt, she just sent it back the same way.
This woman wouldn't talk to me for months, every time her relatives and friends came to the door. "Roy go upstairs and get the coat". "Look what that wicked boy did and on the sabbath"
She even showed it to a blind friend of hers, "Feel that" she said.
Well Ron, My wife and I along with my brother visited the graveyard in 1995 and after taking some video with my son's camcorder,spiked fence was still there, only quite rusty. I phoned him back home in Canada and told about it and to put a finishing humorous touch, I said "And there was also some blue thread still on one of the spikes".
Hope I didn't bore you too much with my story Ron.
All the best.
Roy
Hi bermondseyboy (and thanks for the credits),
Just a note though; my picture of the pub titled "The Watermans Arms" was (is?) actually "The Swan & Sugarloaf". I have tried to get this corrected on the website it is displayed on, but to no avail.
The Swan & Sugarloaf was a Watneys house on the corner of Dockhead (was Hickmans Folly)/Parkers Row (not far from the fire station & the Ship Aground in Wolseley Street (was London Road). You have an old photo of it in this thread numbered A0032
Regards
Freddie
can anyone tell me where the admiral hawke pub was in jamaica rd i dont remember it at all
I Believe it was opposite the now Underground Station - Keetons Road.
I just Googled 191 Jamaica Road and this is what came up,
Somewhere around this area, I'm sure someone can confirm this, or point us in the right direction.
Bermondseyboy
