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Two vehicles like these are what I learnt to drive in when I worked at the Bricklayers Arms Depot.(late 1950s). They could turn on a sixpence but boy were they cold in the Winter,with holes everywhere. They Shook you to pieces, especially on cobble roads and the gear lever on the first vehicle was o...

Panic when the postie arrived on one of these with a message,always seemed to be bad news.

Woolwich New Road, The pub on the corner (seen through the gap) has now gone along with buildings behind it to form the open space at General Gordon Place.
The pub name was Fortune of War, and had a picture of a ship. Picture 1946.

Larcom Street,Elephant & Castle, once ran from Walworth Road to Rodney Road.Now one-way and stops at Brandon Street. Children smilling at Larcom street as they left for days trip to Brighton August 1946.Two hundred children left Larcom Street,by motor coach for a days outing to Brighton.Money ha...

Edmund Street, Rose Public House c1938. X.png Edmund Street,1966. The Rose. X.png Edmund Street. The Rose was situated at No. 78. X.jpg Edmund Street. Site off The Rose, this pub is now used as an Eritrean Christian church. X.jpg EDMUND St, CAMBERWELL, 1953. NEW CHURCH STREET X.jpg Edmund Street,ro...

From Ye Parish of Camberwell by W H Blanch, published in 1877. "The Camberwell Provident Dispensary,of which R.A Gray,Esq., J.P., is President,was established in 1862for the purpose of assisting the poor within radius of one and three quarters miles of St.Giles Church,and at the same time encou...