The earlier put up on this stroll on Sunday thirtieth October 1988 was Dockhead, Sarsons, Tanner St and Bermondsey Sq..
I walked again up Bermondsey Avenue. There was slanting gentle throughout most of the frontages on the east facet of the road and I ended to take photos of a number of of the extra attention-grabbing buildings. Turner Whitehead have been in these tall warehouses at 65-71, now renamed Bramah Home. As I famous in an earlier, Turner Whitehead described themselves as ‘polythene converters’ that means they made and bought a variety of polythene merchandise together with luggage and so on.and these advantageous late Victorian buildings have been stated to have been tea warehouses.
I’d photographed 65-71 Bermondsey St earlier than along with this constructing subsequent door at No63 and was happy to have higher lighting to take one other image. This website was occupied by the Inexperienced Dragon pub from at the very least 1822, most likely a lot earlier. The constructing most likely dates from across the finish of the nineteenth century and the pub seems to have closed and been transformed to industrial use within the Nineteen Twenties. Now the bottom ground is an property brokers.
The Inexperienced Dragon was an emblem of the Earls of Pembroke, considered one of whom, Japer Tudor, born round 1431 was the son of Catherine of Valois, the widow of King Henry V (and mom of Henry VI) and her Welsh clerk of the Wardrobe Owen Tudor. The couple have been stated to have married secretly in 1429 and managed to have at the very least 5 youngsters earlier than their marriage was found; then Owen Tudor was imprisoned and Catherine de Valois despatched to stay in Bermondsey Abbey. She died in shame in 1437 however was nonetheless buried in Westminster Abbey.
Subsequent going up Bermondsey road on the opposite facet of what’s now Classic Yard is that this advantageous Grade II listed 3 storey constructing at No 59, constructed as a brand new police station for the Metropolitan Police in 1851. When a brand new Tower Bridge Police Station opened in 1904 it briefly grew to become a police part home and in 1906 was transformed to industrial use. Not less than till the Nineteen Sixties it was occupied by Learn & Companions Ltd. Since I took this image in 1988 it has been internally refurbished as places of work.
I walked again up Bermondsey Avenue, pausing to {photograph} this picture within the window of a barber’s store. That long-haired determine appeared unusually acquainted.
The sunshine now made for a significantly better image of Thomson Bros Ltd Knightrider Mills, the gateway shared by Tempo Leather-based Co Ltd, to not point out Rilling Hills Ltd and Marchant Hills Ltd.
Because the discover states, these had been ‘ACQUIRED BY THE ELEPHANT HOUSE CO PLC AND DUNLOW HOUSE PLC – PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT – ALL ENQUIRIES’. Fortuitously the event has retained the frontage kind of intact, nearly actually as a result of it’s Grade II listed, with gates now resulting in ‘Shiva Constructing – Studio/Places of work and ‘The Tanneries – www.lordshiva.web’, which tackle tells you just a little about what goes on inside. It was inbuilt 1873 to the designs of George Legg.
This road apparently will get its identify from a pub which had the signal of St Christopher who was the bearer of the cross on which Christ was crucified. The pub, named ‘The Cross of Bermondsey’ was apparently demolished in 1559.
Extra demolition got here with the railway, which runs in a large swathe throughout Bermondsey, constructed for the London and Greenwich Railway Firm with development starting in 1834.
Guys Hospital was based in 1721 by Thomas Man who had made a fortune printing Bibles and a killing by speculating on the South Sea Bubble. An early private-public partnership it had been granted a monopoly by the to provide African slaves to South America and the South Sea Islands. As a result of Spain and Portugal managed most of South America it did little or no enterprise with slaves, however in 1720 pushed up its share value by rumours of help from King and Parliament, rising from £128 to £550 in 5 months, earlier than quickly collapsing again. Man apparently bought his shares earlier than the collapse.
Man’s Tower was inbuilt 1974 and was then the tallest hospital constructing on this planet, with 34 flooring and nearly 150 metres tall. In keeping with Wikipedia it’s now the world’s fifth-tallest hospital constructing.
You possibly can see the railway viaduct within the background of this image on Enid St, which seems to be each the identify of the road beside the viaduct and a few side-streets on the Neckinger Property. I can now not discover both the buildings and chimney however I feel this will likely have been taken from round Enid St Playground.
This stroll will proceed in a later put up.
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