Fair Street

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Fair Street

Opposite the Library in Tooley Street stood another iconic building which is now long gone. The Public Institute in Fair Street it stood with the junction of Tooley Street and Artillery Lane the Institutes facilities included a gymnasium Library and large hall.
The drawing of the building is from the Southwark Annual of 1899
The architects being Stock,Page and Stock who had offices in Tooley Street.
To the rear of the Institute in Parish Street stood St Olaves workhouse

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Fair Street, formerly Listed as No.10 St John's Vicarage.

Fair Street, Bermondsey, from Tower Bridge Road, c1969 St John's Horsleydown Vicarage.

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St John’s Horsleydown, after bomb damage, 1940

London City Mission, behind the St John's Vicarage building above. Built on the footings of the old church.

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Fair Street,Horsleydown Restaurant, c1950.

Fair Street left 2021, site of the Public Institute (above) and the Horsleydown Restaurant, looking from Tooley Street.

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Fair Street Infants School, this was behind Devon Mansions.

Fair Street School.

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Fair Street School. Edna Dilley is the little girl in the bottom photo holding the board, c1930.

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Fair Street, Fisher Football Club on the roof of their clubhouse.

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Unfortunately, I can’t make out the name of the boy or date, but a very clever boy.

Fair Street School.

Fair Street School, Bermondsey, 1966 Christmas Carols.

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Tilbury Place c1939. This ran off Fair Street roughly where St Johns Hall or the Watch House was, and opposite Devon Mansions.
The elderly couple are believed to be the last two inhabitants before demolition, it must have seemed like the end of the world for those who were displaced.