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superminx,are you confusing Grange Road with Grange Walk ,which was the road behind  Grange Road, E S Paull ,use to be a glass and china wharehouse ,us nippers use to hang out  on Spaullsies front step in the evenings dreaming up new mischive to entertain ourself  with

hi once again superminx,i dont know if you have a photo of E.Spaull,but if you go to. www.bermondsey.biz
 and then to the photo gallery ,in the album ,old bermondsey ,by ron smith ,you will find a photo there ,its number 45
          all the best dave

Hi bigpurn13
yes sorry you are right I got the roads mixed up I was only young. I remember Grange Walk there were a row of houses and on the corner there was this really old building which I used to go cubs there. 20th Bermondsey. I don't know what the building was used for before 20th Bermondsey moved in. Any ideals?
Thanks again
Simon  

Hi there  once again ,superminx
the building you refer to was a charity school for girls,if you go to bermondsey .biz (hope its alright to put this in )then to photo gallery scroll down to ,New Bermondsey, click  ,first page row 18 ,photo 53 there you will have your building ,hope this helps

Hi bigpurn13,
Thanks for tell me about the photo of the scout / girls school building at the corner of Grange Walk.
Do you remember Dobs dentist just around the corner from grange walk. Do you know if the under ground toilets at still in Tower Bridge near to where the old bank used to be?
I don't know if I have told you about this, but when then knocked down Abbey Building there was an under ground arch way leading under Abbey St. I lived in Abbey Building for the first three years of my life before moving next door to St Owen Hse. I watch Abbey Building being knocked down everyday after school. Thats how I noticed the Arch way. I used to climb over the wall by using the garage's to get a closer look, but my mum always caught me before I got close to let.
Speak to you soon.
Simon    

last time I was in london 2006 attending my fathers funeral I did notice the underground toilets by the old barclays bank just on the junction of grange walk/tower bridge road. Though I think it's closed down One thing I do is use google maps street view just to go back to the days of old for myself :)

Do you remember Dobs dentist just around the corner from grange walk.

-superminxbigpurn13

I realise the question was about 18 months ago, but my memory is of Dobson's surgery. It was a former house on the north side of Grange Road, with the front door on the right hand side of the property. The waiting room was the ground floor front room, with a harsh flourescent light which was not common then (mid '60s). The was a big old bakolite intercom through which the dentist and assistant could hear everything in the waiting room, and - by pressing the 'talk' button, could summon the next patient to the surgery. The intention was - as the sign in the waiting room instructed - that you would announce your arrival when you entered the waiting room, but I recall noticing that nobody ever did that, so the name of the next appointment would just be announced and if no sound was heard of the patient standing up (the volume was kept pretty loud) and going out to the stairs, the next name would be tried. The surgeries were upstairs - the main one facing Grange Road and the other in the smaller room behind facing north. I remember Mr Dobson as a very nice man.

Do you know if the under ground toilets at still in Tower Bridge near to where the old bank used to be?

-superminxbigpurn13

They can be seen in the Google street view but with a Southwark Council "TO LET" sign. You might assume that the "I" had fallen off (a variation of the "gone for a 'p'" gag) but it is/was apparently a "cafe / restaurant refurbishment opportunity".
"Waiter, this soup tastes like ..." - no, let's not go down that thread!