That is the primary put up about my stroll in Bermondsey and different elements of south London on Novermber thirteenth 1988. My earlier stroll on the finish of October ended with the put up Across the Abbey in Bermondsey.
Bricklayers Arms, Web page’s Stroll and Birds of the World 1988
Rothsay Road will not be removed from the Bricklayers Arms roundabout on the New Kent Highway to the place I feel I most likely obtained a bus from Waterloo to begin my stroll.
This lengthy block of council housing remains to be there, a part of the Meakin Property managed since 1996 by the Leathermarket JMB which manages round 1500 properties in Borough and Bermondsey. The block was in-built 1935 to excessive requirements for the time by the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey.
The constructing at left on the nook with Alice St can be nonetheless there, however there’s now no signal of a door at this nook. It was a public home, The Jolly Tanners, courting from earlier than 1851, although renamed in 1985 as Uncles and later as Sherwoods, lastly closing in 1997. A few storeys have been added when it was transformed into Tayet Towers
Not distant I photographed one other pub on the opposite aspect of Tower Bridge Highway on the nook of Web page’s Stroll. The Victoria remains to be there, nonetheless very a lot open and nonetheless trying a lot the identical apart from a paint job and a big climbing plant on its proper nook. The pub was in-built 1886 when staff from the Bricklayers’ Arms railway depot throughout the road most likely equipped a lot of its customized.
CAMRA gave the pub a great write-up in 2008 and in 2017. In fact Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co now not provide the beer – they stopped brewing in 1989 although numerous mergers had set them on a downhill path since 1971.
You’ll be able to see The Victoria pub on the proper of this image on Willow Stroll, the place in 1988 Balfour Beatty and Jones Lang Wooton have been busy on Tower Bridge Enterprise Park, “Enterprise, manufacturing and warehouse items … obtainable from August 1988”.
Bricklayers Arms started life as different terminus opened by the London and Croydon Railway and the South Jap Railway in 1844 to London Bridge, however was quickly transformed to a items station which closed in 1981. The sidings at the moment are constructed over for housing however the former stables stay in place on Web page’s Stroll.
Birds of the World was on the learn of a store, probably a pet store which my contact sheet states was on Grange Highway, and doubtless both on the nook of Pages Stroll or Fendall Road. I preferred the work of the birds and was amused by the shadow which put them on a tree.
Sapphire Laundry Ltd nonetheless personal the buildings at 29-31 Web page’s Stroll and are nonetheless an energetic firm, although they’re their enterprise is now registered with the classification ‘Shopping for and promoting of personal actual property.’ This constructing is subsequent to a fairly extra substantial one, Sultra Home.
The “roadline” premises on the nook of Willow Stroll and Web page’s Stroll have been a part of the previous British Highway Providers Parcels Ltd which had been created as a nationalised highway haulage trade in 1948. This was one of many first of Thatcher’s privatisations in 1982 when the corporate was bought to its staff altering from the Nationwide Freight Company to the Nationwide Freight Consortium. I feel it most likely went out of use after the Bricklayer’s Arms items depot closed in 1981.
One other image displaying extra of the Bricklayers Arms stables with their roofs with clerestory home windows which have been additionally a standard function on some early railway carriages, extremely helpful when coach lighting – if any – was supplied by oil lamps, however not wanted as soon as carriages had electrical lighting.
I’ll proceed this stroll from Sunday thirteenth November in a later put up.
Tags: 1988, Bermondsey, Bermondsey Abbey, Birds of the WOrld, Bricklayers Arms, Items depot, Jolly Tanners, London, London Photographs, Meakin Property, Web page’s Stroll, peter Marshall, pub, roadline, Rothsay Road, Sapphire Laundry, Southwark, stables, The Victoria, Tower Bridge Enterprise Park, Willow Stroll
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