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- Thu Feb 02, 2017 2:35 am
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Borough High Street
- Replies: 92
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Re: Borough High Street
Borough High Street The George Inn No. 77 (formerly 70) The 17th century inn, built round a courtyard, only the south side now remains. This is of three storeys and attic with wood dormers in a tiled roof, the walls being partly of brick and partly timber-framed. The western half has two ranges of ...
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 1:54 am
- Forum: Member's Short Stories
- Topic: KIWI, McDonald's/Oliver's/Hamilton's
- Replies: 18
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- Thu Feb 02, 2017 1:47 am
- Forum: Member's Short Stories
- Topic: KIWI, McDonald's/Oliver's/Hamilton's
- Replies: 18
- Views: 60122
Re: KIWI, McDonald's/Oliver's/Hamilton's
The three girls were living with their parents up until at least 1891 in Neckinger Place, there was also a Mrs Hall who was the girls Grandmother.?
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:55 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Cropper & Co. Ltd. Southwark.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4584
Cropper & Co. Ltd. Southwark.
Male employees using "William Crosland" cutting machinery in Cropper and Company's cardboard box factory in Southwark. Cropper & Co. Ltd. cardboard box works occupied a site straddling 30-34 Southwark Bridge Road, 17-22 America Street and 8-14 Keppell Street, Southwark Cropper &...
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:39 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: WILLOW WALK
- Replies: 7
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Messrs. Charles Hearson & Co., Limited.
Charles Hearson & Co Ltd, Trade name: Paramet, 68 Willow Walk, Bermondsey, from about 1880 till the 1960s. Laboratory, scientific and medical glassware and apparatus, Hydrometers, Thermometers, Graduated glassware, complete laboratory furnishers. Lactobator" made by Messrs. Charles Hearson ...
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 7:07 am
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: HALPINS TRANSPORT.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12625
HALPINS TRANSPORT.
Halpins..jpg Halpins Hauliers was run by Jim, John & Jean Halpin, they were second cousins of mine. The house in Tranton Road was damaged by Incendiary bombs during the Blitz & the Halpins bought it & built a new one on the site. There was a workshop at the back from Storks Road entranc...
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 6:56 am
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: B J MYERS HAULAGE.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6963
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 3:30 am
- Forum: Bermondsey People
- Topic: Put a Name to a Face - People you may know
- Replies: 75
- Views: 196634
Re: Put a Name to a Face - People you may know
SOMEONE MAY RECOGNIZE THIS GENTLEMAN, STREET,SCHOOL OR SHOP.
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 3:06 am
- Forum: Docklands and Waterways
- Topic: ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.
- Replies: 109
- Views: 207417
Re: ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.
Surrey Commercial Docks, Rotherhithe. The deal porters were a specialist group of worker’s in London’s docks, most of the deal porters worked in Surrey Commercial Docks, Rotherhithe, which specialised in timber. They handled baulks of softwood or "deal", stacking them up to 60 feet (18 m) ...
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 2:41 am
- Forum: Docklands and Waterways
- Topic: ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.
- Replies: 109
- Views: 207417
ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.
Rotherhithe Street, Columbia Wharf, View from the side,'Ladies Only' entrance at the E.Ross and Co. importing company, c1979. X.png Rotherhithe Street, Bermondsey 1979, Columbia Wharf. X.png Columbia Wharf & Horn Stairs,Rotherhithe,1937..jpg Globe Wharf rice mill. Rotherhithe St.1921..jpg