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by Fogbrain
Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:24 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Anchor Street
Replies: 9
Views: 9144

Re: Anchor Street

Galleywall Road across by the railway arches Galleywall Road is out of shot on the right on the 1950 picture. The John Bull Arch is on the right. The arches are revealed because the buildings on the north side of Southwark Park Road were destroyed in the V2 strikes. The building behind the railway ...
by Fogbrain
Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:32 pm
Forum: General Postings
Topic: Buses in the blitz
Replies: 1
Views: 9629

Re: Buses in the blitz

Busgirl wrote:Does anyone know where the bus depot was.
East London is a big place with lots of bus garages, but Bermondsey isn't in east London. Do you know her home address?
by Fogbrain
Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:21 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: LONDON ROAD
Replies: 23
Views: 23559

Re: LONDON ROAD

London Road, Elephant & Castle, c1944. Travel information kiosk. This is Piccadilly Circus, corner of Shaftsbury Avenue. There is a kiosk but the structure beyond it with the London Transport roundel is temporary wartime cladding protecting the staircase down to the underground station tick...
by Fogbrain
Mon Feb 28, 2022 9:02 pm
Forum: General Postings
Topic: Tracing Bermondsey gran roots
Replies: 5
Views: 11833

Re: Tracing Bermondsey gran roots

With Shillington Street School you're a bit more lucky. Shillington Street has long gone but the school survives - the same building that your grandmother would have known - and is now apartments. The address is now 181 Este Road but a shiny new plaque at the front says "181. Shillington Road S...
by Fogbrain
Sat Feb 26, 2022 9:34 pm
Forum: General Postings
Topic: Tracing Bermondsey gran roots
Replies: 5
Views: 11833

Re: Tracing Bermondsey gran roots

Can I expect to see any original buildings around these areas? Hi, Bermondseyroots1888. You're too late to see Alderminster Road - the last bit vanished maybe 20 or 30 years ago. In fact the stretch of Alderminster Road where 103 was - between Dunton Road and Welsford Street - was completely built ...
by Fogbrain
Sat Feb 26, 2022 8:08 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Leathermarket Street
Replies: 7
Views: 7144

Re: Leathermarket Street

kiwi wrote:Board's Buildings, 1913
Board's Buildings ran from Tabard Street to Amicable Row. The photo is looking towards Tabard Street from Amicable Row. The wall on the right was of the South London Boiler Works.
by Fogbrain
Wed Dec 29, 2021 9:19 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Parkers Row
Replies: 38
Views: 40345

Re: Parkers Row

kiwi wrote:T & T Club, The Chapel of White Heart, was this in the RC Holy Trinity Church, Dockhead. ?
No, it was Time & Talents in the former White Hart pub on the corner of George Row and Hickman's Folly.
by Fogbrain
Tue Dec 14, 2021 11:18 pm
Forum: General Postings
Topic: MYSTERY-DO YOU RECOGNISE THESE PLACES OR PEOPLE?
Replies: 66
Views: 114206

Re: MYSTERY-DO YOU RECOGNISE THESE PLACES?

kiwi wrote:It states Southwark
Crosby Row. The pub is the Whitesmith's Arms, converted to flats in 2014. Guy's Hospital tower (the old one, obviously) in the background. This GSV of 2012 shows the pub still trading: https://goo.gl/maps/sCkHt2tpMvWWRZXd9.
by Fogbrain
Tue Dec 14, 2021 9:38 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Paradise Street
Replies: 33
Views: 67371

Re: Paradise Street

kiwi wrote:Paradise Street, Bermondsey c1932. A four-storey building, that no longer exists, having been replaced by modern housing.
That's Huxley's Tenements, named after Thomas Huxley - "Darwin's Bulldog". There's no modern housing there, it's all part of King's Stairs Gardens.
by Fogbrain
Tue Dec 14, 2021 9:25 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Brunel Road - Rotherhithe
Replies: 21
Views: 20102

Re: Brunel Road - Rotherhithe

kiwi wrote:I think it’s Brunel Road looking down Hatteraick Road with the Bricklayers Arms Pub left.
I concur.

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