Bermondsey Wall – St Saviour’s and Chambers Wharf 1988 continues from the earlier publish Bermondsey – Rubber, Antiques, Murals & A Martyr 1988
I walked up George Row, following what had been the primary course of the River Neckinger to Bermondsey Wall and St Saviour’s Home, the place I made one among my favorite pictures of London. The constructing, as No 21 Bermondsey Wall West, will get a brief point out in Southwarks St Saviours Dock Conservation space appraisal from 2003 which notes it “has not too long ago been restored and prolonged, dropping a few of its character“, although maybe the primary loss has been of its view of Tower Bridge with all that’s now seen being the road aspect of recent riverside luxurious flats.
Info I’ve been capable of finding on-line tells me solely what the attention can see (although not all in my image) which is that it has a “white rendered wall punctuated solely by a big door with a classical segmental pediment, and a easy round window above it.” It clearly will get its title from St Saviour’s Monastery and from its look I believe was probably a Catholic establishment of some nature. After I posted on-line a view displaying the rear of this constructing (since obscured by an extension) in 1983 a 12 months or two in the past I wrote:
“Google maps describes St Saviour’s Home as a ‘Non secular establishment’ and it appears quite like a convent or convent college but it surely seems now to be costly flats – round £1m for two mattress – and one property agent describes it as a ‘warehouse conversion’.
The street by St Saviour’s Home continues to be slim and with a slight curve quite like that within the image, probably initially following the financial institution of the river or a tidal canal. The entrance of St Saviour’s Home is on George Row, the place the River Neckinger ran, with a bridge over it right here. The tidal canals had water let in each few days to for the mill instantly to the west, and the Neckinger, the Thames, St Saviour’s Dock and a canal alongside Wolseley St (then London St) shaped the boundaries of the slum infamous within the early nineteenth century as Jacob’s Island, utilized by Dickens in Oliver Twist.
A lot of the riverside right here is now filled with luxurious flats and is personal right here. On Bermondsey Wall West there may be an space the place you may look out alongside the river to Tower Bridge however a brand new block on the tip of the older warehouses restricts the view.
This warehouse block, now transformed to flats and places of work as Tempus Wharf continues to be there at 29 Bermondsey Eall West, simply to the east of the junction with Flockton St. This 5 storey warehouse relationship relationship from 1865-70 and is Grade II listed as Chambers Wharf, a quite complicated title as there was a a lot bigger constructing generally known as Chambers Wharf a brief distance to the east.
On the 1896 OS City plan that is named as Brunswick Wharf. It was constructed on the previous website of Murrell’s Wharf as a granary. Later it was mixed with the Seaborne Coal Wharf subsequent door on the east as Sterling Wharf for paper and card. Chambers purchased up most of the wharves alongside right here within the Thirties and erected their giant chilly retailer (demolished in 2008-9) a little bit to the east. I believe the title Tempus Wharf is just a bit little bit of Latin added to offer it a little bit extra class.
A extra distant view of the east aspect of St Saviour’s Home from Bermondsey Wall West exhibits the big space of clean white rendered flat wall. Within the redevelopment this was stepped out into George Row and perforated with home windows and storage doorways, with solely a brief part of the unique now seen. It additionally offers an impression of the state of the realm again in 1988
This constructing and the taller ones behind had been part of the Chambers Wharf Chilly Shops website.
When Chambers Wharf and Chilly Shops Ltd constructed their large chilly shops within the Thirties they had been in a vaguely Deco model, however these elements rebuilt after wartime bomb injury had been quite plainer. The buildings had been large, and resulted within the closing of a piece of Bermondsey Wall, dividing it into West and East, with the frontage right here on Chambers St. The river frontage had 3 berths and there have been frequent companies from the continent bringing meat and different perishable items right here. It closed as a chilly retailer within the Eighties and was briefly used as a gold bullion & doc retailer.
Numerous plans had been put ahead for its redevelopment, together with as a heliport for London, which the graffiti right here, ‘BUILD YOUR HELIPORT IN YOR BACK GARDN NOT OURS’ exhibits was not welcome within the space and a powerful native marketing campaign by CHOP noticed an finish to that proposal. Lastly planning permission was given for a residential improvement. The chilly shops had been demolished round 2008 however progress on the location has been held up by the Thames Tideway Tunnel super-sewer works for which it it a serious website.
A last image for this publish of one other a part of the Chambers Wharf website, nonetheless with its signal. I circled and walked again to Bermondsey Wall West, the place the subsequent publish on the stroll will start.
Tags: Bermondsey, Bermondsey Wall West, Brunswick Wharf, Chambers Wharf, Chilly Retailer, George Row, heliport, London, London Images, peter Marshall, non secular establishment, River Thames, riverside flats, Southwark, St Saviour’s Home, Sterlking Wharf, Tempus Wharf, Tower Bridge
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