This publish on my stroll on Sunday thirteenth November continues from Bricklayers Arms, Web page’s Stroll and Birds of the World 1988.
Fellmongers, Kennels, Snakes and Thomas A’Becket 1988
The Tanners Arms at 61 Willow Stroll on the nook with Crimscott Road was closed in 2003 and demolished the next 12 months. There had been a pub right here since no less than 1822 underneath its earlier title, The Fellmongers Arms. Fellmongers had been sellers in fells – animal skins – who scraped the hair or wool from the pelts after which bought or handed over to the tanners who continued to technique of cleansing and making ready them for the ultimate tanning to provide leather-based.
The constructing within the image is a somewhat enticing ‘streamlined’ design, presumably relationship from round 1930, and is way extra fascinating than its alternative, primarily a big storage shed.
I feel this pet store and the subsequent door tailor had been on a website which is now part of the Tesco automobile park, except the numbering on the road has modified since 1988. I feel the tailor’s Ben Beber was closed and empty and the store unit on the acute left was clearly derelict and flyposted.
I used to be impressed by the show of kennels of various sizes in addition to the opposite items on the pavement exterior the store.
My motive for making this image was clearly the bust in regards to the shopfront with its ‘WE ARRANGE HOUSE CLEARANCES’ signal, however I additionally preferred the signal to the left above ‘ANTIQUES WANTED’ which has a snake wriggling across the title MANTLE.
There’s nonetheless a Blue Mantle Antiques on the Outdated Kent Highway, however now within the Outdated Hearth Station at 306-312 somewhat than this store, and the historical past web page on its website exhibits an image of this store the place the enterprise started in 1969. It’s the UK main provider of vintage fireplaces additionally promoting trendy replicas.
I feel these poster had been on the empty retailers not removed from Blue Mantle Antiques, presumably a few of these later taken over by the corporate earlier than they moved to the previous Firestation.
I believed these had been an fascinating choice of imagery in varied types.
The Outdated Kent Highway right here is maybe the dividing line between Bermondsey and Walworth.
The Thomas A’Becket on the nook of Albany Road is a nice Victorian pub and have become well-known for its fitness center on the primary ground the place amongst many others Henry Cooper educated and Mohammed ALi visited – and the ground above was the rehearsal venue for David Bowie and the ‘Spiders from Mars’. The constructing dates from 1898, changing an earlier nineteenth century constructing on the location, however in all probability it had been a pub since lengthy earlier than that was constructed. It {photograph} exhibits ‘Established 1757’ on its Albany Road frontage.
However its iconic stature failed to reserve it from closure, at first briefly in 1983 after boxing promoter and landlady Beryl Cameron misplaced her combat with the brewery to maintain it open, and extra completely after ex-boxer and promoter Gary Davidson ran it for 4 years from 1985. It grew to become an property brokers, an artists studio, and the higher flooring had been transformed to flats. It reopened briefly in 2017-8 because the Rock Island Bar & Grill, after which in 2019 as Vietnamese restaurant Viêt Quán. There’s rather more in regards to the pub and its boxing historical past on the net, so I received’t hassle so as to add extra.
Past the pub on the proper of the image is the Outdated Hearth Station, then trying in poor situation, now significantly restored by Blue Mantle Antiques
One other image of the Grade II listed 8 Grange Highway. Sadly the itemizing didn’t embrace the hanging wheels and a part of a automobile physique which- along with the nice doorway made it inconceivable to cross with out me taking one other image.
My stroll on Sunday November thirteenth 1988 in Bermondsey will proceed in a later publish.
Tags: 1988, antiques, Bermondsey, Beryl Cameron, Blue Mantle Antiques, bust, David Bowie, fellmongers, Fellmongers Arms, Grange Rd, Henry Cooper, Jaguar, kennels, London, London Pictures, November, Outdated Kent Highway, pet store, peter Marshall, pub, rehearsal room, shopfront, Southwark, Tanners Artms, Thomas A’Becket, Stroll, Walworth
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