BermondseyBoy

kiwi wrote:Picture States, Dockhead Stores near Tower Bridge, Eric Osborn with his sister Vera who ran the pub at 146 Tanner Street. Can anyone confirm this is correct.

It doesn't seem likely - The Dockhead Stores was a Courage pub; the photo was taken in a Whitbread pub.

kiwi wrote:I think that is St Johns Estate, Druid Street on the left.

I do too.

Tower Bridge (Riley Road) School to the right.

I think that is indeed now Tower Bridge Primary School, but it was Fair Street School when the photo was taken.

kiwi wrote:It has also been said that The Blue was named after the Blue Anchor Pub, does anyone know?

Southwark Park Road had been around long before Southwark Park was laid out. Until March 1875 it was called Blue Anchor Road, after the pub on the corner with Blue Anchor Lane.

East Lane Wharf was used to ship out refuse collected in the area. The dock there was previously a dry dock. Bermondsey Wall, warehouses of Vestry Wharf, beyond it, East Lane Wharf c1988. X..png This view is from Chambers Street looking up East Lane towards the river. The building in the centre was...

Southwark Mayor Sunny Lambe at the relaunch of H's Cafe, 12th November 2025.

Can anyone name the places. :? In the first photo we can see the Norwegian Church in the centre with Regina house and Columbia Point behind, and St Mary's Estate on the left, so that puts the photographer in King's Stairs Gardens, right by the river I reckon. In the other photo the photographer is ...

Clement Road prefabs, centred on house number 70. The highest street number in Clement's Road was 60; the chauffeur to the pre- and post-war mayors of Bermondsey, Eddie Taylor - my great-uncle, lived there. (I don't remember ever hearing my great-uncle Ed call my great-aunt Carrie rude names. But t...

I am so sorry to hear your news.
And apologies for the late posting of this - I rarely look in the Member's Short Stories topic.

kiwi wrote: ... do you remember the fruit stall.

I remember the Wimpy Bar opposite - not difficult as I walked past it on four days ago!

kiwi wrote:Picture states, taken in Bermondsey, can anyone recognise the boys or street/road.

Adelaide Avenue, Brockley.