Late 70s? - Blue Eyed Maid in foreground, with construction of John Harvard Library taking place beyond. Petrol filling station long gone!
Borough High Street
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This is Borough High Street. H Archer Tobacco & Cigarettes Co, on right. established 1850 at 170 Borough High St, merged with R & J Hill in 1905. St George the Martyr Church, left.
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The building on the right is The London Provision Exchange, was established here at the beginning of the 20th. It is now, as 9 Montague Close, below Glaziers Hall. At one time it was the Westminster Bank, later this was known as Bank Chambers.
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Borough High Street, The George Inn taken in 1960, left Fred Martin (publican), Princess Margaret and the Bishop of Southwark Arthur Mervyn Stockwood. The George was rebuilt in 1676, after a devastating fire swept Southwark.
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Angel Place, Borough High Street. Marshalsea Prison Wall.
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Laytons Court, Borough High St roughly where Little Dorritt Court and The Royal British Legion Building is today 2018. Was also the site of the Kings Bench Prison; it then became housing as seen here.
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The newly completed Guys hospital tower is in the background. I think that the white building is John Harvard House corner of Queens Head Yard.
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Me too.kiwi wrote:I think that the white building is John Harvard House corner of Queens Head Yard.
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