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I'm not sure of this, it is just something in the back of my mind so I could be wrong. I think Clive Place was down the side of the Vic pub. :? It was, but access to it was down beside the other end of Clyde Buildings (the tall building in the centre - the photo is looking east towards Pages Walk)....

I never knew they had a Drinking Fountain And Cattle Trough Association. If I remember correctly there was a Horse Trough by the coffee stall in the slip road opposite St Olave's & St Saviour's Grammar School for Boy's.? Yes, at the end of Devon Mansions, between Tooley Street and Fair Street. ...

Fort Road, Bermondsey, c1914. Unfortunately Bridgeman Images have the wrong photo for this caption. The photo is of Falstaff Yard and is on the London Picture Archive website here https://www.londonpicturearchive.org.uk/view-item?i=53948 . The image's caption "66-68 Fort Road: front elevations...

A better res copy.

kiwi wrote:New Dock Inn was at one time known as the 'Flea Pit'.

It was also known as The Bug & Blanket.

I may be wrong on this, but I think the Shad Thames Pumping Station is now roughly where the Café was. It's a really close call, but the cafe was the last building along the street on the site now occupied by the former warehouse called Tamarind Court, right next door to the pumping station. The ar...

Picture states, Major Road, Southwark, c1909. Maybe someone can confirm, one way or the other. The photo is of Major Works - Jackson's french polish factory in Major Road. Hancock's was at 122 Jamaica Road. I suspect that sign in Major Road is an advertisement and has the Jamaica Road address in th...

kiwi wrote:I think that the white building is John Harvard House corner of Queens Head Yard.

Me too.

kiwi wrote:I think this is the Cold Blow Lane entrance.?

That looks right - he's shortly going to pass Hunsdon Road, once he's got past that wally standing in the middle of the road with a camera.

kiwi wrote:Silwood Street, Silwood Estate Playground with chute 1968.

This isn't Silwood Street or Silwwod Estate, it's John Kennedy House (formerly Faber House) with Rotherhithe Old Road in the background.

kiwi wrote:I’m almost certain this is Barlow Street looking towards Darwin Street. Darwin Buildings would be to the left with Davies Dairy across the road on the corner of Darwin Place.

It's Crail Row with Darwin Buildings on the right and the shop on the corner with Hemp Row in the background.