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SOMEONE MAY RECOGNIZE THIS GENTLEMAN, STREET,SCHOOL OR SHOP.

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) ...

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

Southwark Park Road. Rotherhithe 1935

White plaque on wall in 1935 photo shows boundary between Bermondsey & Rotherhithe.

Lockyer Street, previously Evert Street,

Sorry about the quality of the picture, it was taken in 1959 at Hunton Court Farm, Hunton. Which is in between, Yalding & Marden. At the back is the tin hopping hut we lived in, my brother in doorway & his mate (can anyone recognize him) hanging up the wallpaper with flour and water to the l...

Hop-Picking, someone said that you really cannot understand what it was like unless you had experienced it, there’s some truth in that. In the early years, (1940s/50s) we would get the train from London Bridge Station to Paddock Wood. We would be up really early & walk from Pages Walk to London ...