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by GSLondon
Tue May 03, 2022 8:28 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: DRUID STREET.
Replies: 13
Views: 13650

Re: DRUID STREET.

Yes, you are absolutely right, Fogbrain. Sorry, I confused the two in my mind for some reason. And thanks for the link - great video!
by GSLondon
Mon May 02, 2022 1:57 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: DRUID STREET.
Replies: 13
Views: 13650

Re: DRUID STREET.

I could - and do - spend hours trawling through the pics on this wonderful forum.

The Alfred Salter playground is a little further up Druid Street, right next to the Fisher Club building, and isn’t the smaller playground on the Arnold.
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by GSLondon
Sat Apr 23, 2022 4:01 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: OLD KENT ROAD.
Replies: 249
Views: 344230

Re: OLD KENT ROAD.

Sharing a
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picture of the original Old Kent Road library with Great Dover Street in the distance
by GSLondon
Sat Apr 23, 2022 3:52 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: LONDON ROAD
Replies: 23
Views: 26086

Re: LONDON ROAD

Thought I’d share this
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picture of the Burton building at the Elephant, with London Road and the Bakerloo line station in the background.
by GSLondon
Sun Jan 30, 2022 12:38 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Borough High Street
Replies: 92
Views: 145251

Re: Borough High Street

Late 70s? - Blue Eyed Maid in foreground, with construction of John Harvard Library taking place beyond. Petrol filling station long gone!
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by GSLondon
Sun Jan 30, 2022 12:32 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: GREAT SUFFOLK STREET.
Replies: 11
Views: 13539

Welfares Newsagents - Great Suffolk Street

From the SE1 community newspaper late 70s/early 80s
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by GSLondon
Sun Jan 30, 2022 12:30 pm
Forum: Bermondsey People
Topic: Ron Histead - Tooley Street
Replies: 0
Views: 11072

Ron Histead - Tooley Street

From the SE1 newspaper late 1970s?
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by GSLondon
Sun Jan 30, 2022 12:17 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: OLD KENT ROAD.
Replies: 249
Views: 344230

Re: OLD KENT ROAD.

Some pics of the Livesley library on Old Kent Road from 2020, including the statue of the man himself and the original Chaucer Tales mosaics from the Bricklayers ‘ Arms Library. Apparently there was an intact Edgingtons shop front preserved there too for many years but the council had taken it away ...
by GSLondon
Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:44 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Brunel Road - Rotherhithe
Replies: 22
Views: 26409

Re: Brunel Road - Rotherhithe

Love the 1930s picture posted in August showing the Neptune and beyond, which which shows how the alignment of Brunel Road went prior to widening for the roundabout in the 1970s and how much land was “grabbed”. Looking at the older pictures of Jamaica Road and Lower Road, it is sometimes difficult t...

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