Crucifix Lane Railway Arches

Great News --- Well done.  Thank You - English Heritage. A victory for common sense before all is lost and all is destroyed by the developers - at least any future generations will still be able to see these.

RE;Customs
Hi,I worked for London bridge vaults in Stainer st,just off Crucfix lane and we were often visited by our friends at Customs which were more than happy to spill the beans on various other vaults in the area and their tricks to try and con the Customs,ie,knocking the still corked necks off wine bottles and syphoning any glass left from the booze,re-bottling and dri....hang on....I'm going on a bit....anyway,it was never us.....honest!

Hi stevedenny,
Reading about Crucifix Lane and Stainer St, reminded me of my time in the booze getto's in and around the general area, anyone remember John Trapp, Jules Duval, Sandeman's port, and a little bottling plant under the arches at the Tower Bridge end of Crucifix Lane ? German pilsner beer in green bottles, my introduction to alcohol at 17.
cheers(as they say) PeteFred 

in the early days  i was a wine bottler for John Trapps on the corner of Bermondsey street my wife worked for Eagans at the other end i think they bottled guiness and the likes of

ahh yes,I remember Trapps,just round the corner from London Bridge vaults,the were our main competitors,once we had a forklift truck disapear from out side our arch in Stainer st,only to be spotted a few months later,outside Trapps! They were allowed to keep it,it was ancient!!

Hi Steve Not Guilty (fork lift)  anyway the other one  i worked for was Buswells which is now the London Dungeons when we were bottling Spanish sautern they would say the rest of the  cask would be spanish graves and just change the \labels,  didn,t make much difference to me we just bottled it they change the label But every morning went we turned up the manager was standing at his office and give everyone a glass of stones  ginger wine

danny

Yay for National heritage.. its sickening to see the history of london go down the toilet for commercialism. I was sad to see that the antique market on bermondsey square gone and replaced with concrete and a few if you can even call it modern art..

My memory of walking down Crucifix Lane on my way to school from Guy's Hospital to Dockhead between 1965 and 1968 was passing a building opposite the arches tiled in Grey, White and Yellow. As a child I was quite impressed with the colourful and unusual design. It was a landmark in my long journey to and from school It was still there when I revisited the area in the seventies. It was like coming back to see an old friend!

  My memory of walking down Crucifix Lane on my way to school from Guy's Hospital to Dockhead between 1965 and 1968 was passing a building opposite the arches tiled in Grey, White and Yellow. As a child I was quite impressed with the colourful and unusual design. It was a landmark in my long journey to and from school It was still there when I revisited the area in the seventies. It was like coming back to see an old friend!

-lindas

Hi Lindas

I remember the building with the grey, white and yellow tiles.
It was an office block and I think this is the original building but with a different doorway.

Kind regards

Lesley