Barnaby Buildings

Found the address

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http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=73683

-crosby34

Nice clip:
Tower Bridge > London Bridge > Borough High St > Great Dover St > Bricklayers Arms > Old Kent Road (down to the gasometers) then over to and finish with the (old) Den. Great find

Just did a search on Getty images
( http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=2&language=en-US&family=editorial&assetType=image&p=%22old%20kent%20road%22)
and found this picture of Barnaby buildings (10.6.1970):
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3433381/Hulton-Archive

and one of the Bricklayers Arms junction from the other direction (ie viewing eastwards) in 1931:

Really great finds! As well as BB, I lived at the Borough in the early 70's, close to Borough High St.
That Getty image of BB is fantastic!

Here's a pic of Compasses Court (off Tower Bridge Road) in the 1930s.

hi fred i lived in in aberdore street creasey estate from 1940 ish, i was born in leroy street in 1938 but can not remember bermondsey buildings there use to be a ally that run from tower bridge road to creasey estate there there was also a old bombed out pub in the ally i wonder if bermondsey buildings was of that ally  i think it was called comppases court

hi paperboy
               i lived in creasy estate in aberdour street  from 1942 ish untill the 60 es there were a set of steps in the courtyard that led down to compasses court there was a  bombed  out pub there ,i think creasy replaced bermondsey buildings in the 30es getting back to barnaby buildings they used to be a block of old buildings facing them on the outher side of leroy street i cannot rember the name of them.

I lived in Pages Walk until 1976 and I remember some kids at my school (Grange -Webb st) living in Barnaby Bldgs. They seemed to be allocated to the families with the most kids and least income,even worse condition than the railway bldgs in Webb st. If memory serves me right you could see the bldgs over the wall from the swing park in Leroy st.
Dawn

I remeber living in barnaby buildings when I was about two or three. Just shortly before my family moved to brixton south london.

We had not long come back to england from County Armnagh N. Ireland where I was born. (My father was from Cork).

I remember that there where my father, my mother, my two older sisters, and my baby brother (which puts me at about three years old). I remember that one of my uncles was there too. Though whether he was staying there or just visiting I don't know. I remeber this vividly because my sisters and some of their frineds were pretending that there were monsters outside and (being only three), I ran in to my mother terrified. I guess it left an impression as I clearly remeber my father and uncle were working on a car outside. I remeber being scared that the monster would get them and I told my mother who called my sisters in and told them off for scaring me. Although my mother patiently explained that there were no monsters and that my father and uncle were fine, I did not go out for the rest of that day and I didn't feel happy until my father and uncle came in and I saw they were ok.

I know it was in barnaby buildings because when I mentioned it to my mother many years after she explained that that was were it was. I have searched for years for this place but have never been able to find it until now.

Your so right I remember Barnaby buildings and the school keeper

Wow thank you everyone, just found this site having been shown the article by a contact. I have been searching for 7yrs and as I live in Cornwall it has not been easy trying to track the recent family history.
My mother was born in 1926 and lived in Barnaby Buildings that she still refers to as Bermondsey Buildings. The first two years of her life she spent in no12 with her mother and from 2-10yrs she lived in no27 with her grandmother, uncle and uncles wife all sharing the same bed!! Her grandmother used to take in washing.

When school started for the day the front gate was locked, my mum used to climb over the adjoining wall and run home where her nan hid her under the kitchen table when school came knocking. When they managed to keep her there her gran would put food through the bars at playtime.She remembers 2 rooms and the scullery, she has no idea where they hung clothes as she recalls the huge bed taking up most of the room.

My g gran still lived there when she died aged 59 in 1937, by then my mother had moved back to her mother and husband who now lived in Lower Thames Street next to the tower.

Does anyone know if there are any records of occupants for the 1920's? Also looking for the school records from 1930-1940.

Hi All, just found this site . I lived in Barnaby Buildings from around 1970 to '72 and although born in England we returned to Ireland and in the late 60's lived here on our return. It was set up at the time for homeless familys as temporary accommodation and was very basic [ no bathroom only toilet accessed from the kitchen via a small balcony].From my bedroom window I looked onto the flyover on the old kent road and the building backed onto bacon school.Our local school was grange. Once a week my brother and me had a bath at grange road public baths [ whether we needed one or not].Looking at the photos the place was the same then as it was when built in the 1800's.

Hello,Barnaby building's was at one side of Bacon school and the other side of Bacon school was Guinness buildings where I lived,If you were walking up Pages walk just past the main gate  at Bacon school you turn left into what was Guinness buildings a narrow road led to a passage way past the porters house Mr George Horton and to a gate that he locked at about 5 o'clock,if you turn left up Leroy street there was a bit of waste ground where me and my brother built camps just past the dump on the left you turned into barnaby buildings,it was well rough,this was about 1965 I was 5 years old I still remember having stone fights with some of the kids there.

Just did a search on Getty images
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and found this picture of Barnaby buildings (10.6.1970):
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and one of the Bricklayers Arms junction from the other direction (ie viewing eastwards) in 1931:
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-freddie

i remember those buildings they were very much like the buildings on the other side of darwin
the in "we was all one" movie at one point ,,,

with out saying anything about the place,, its just marvelous to see the brick work of this victorian dwelling with reaching gothic overtones of a by gone era

Barnaby Buildings was definitely on Leroy St just before it reached the Old Kent Road. It was right next to Pages Walk Central school. I had a milk round with United Dairies in the 1950's. I believe Mac the Milkman had several girl friends in the flats. I always seemed to be waiting a long time for him to bring the empties back to the milk float.

Another couple of pictures that maybe of interest re this thread
(borrowed from the "Now and Then Walworth" facebook page)

From Leroy Street looking south over the Bricklayers Arms junction and down New Kent Road during construction of the flyover:

Old Kent Road 1969 looking towards the Bricklayers Arms junction during construction of flyover: