The earlier publish on this stroll was Warehouses, Boats and Biscuits – Bermondsey 1988
I walked previous Dockhead and alongside Tooley Road, turning down Tower Bridge Street and on to Tanner St making a number of images, however have solely digitised the 2 proven right here. Dockhead is after all on the head of St Saviour’s Dock and till a bridge was constructed throughout the mouth of the dock walkers by the river needed to take the route previous Dockhead – and I typically took an image trying down the dock in the direction of the Thames and this was no exception, however I haven’t but digitised it.
The constructing with the round window on its prime ground was Jacob’s Biscuit Manufacturing unit – one other of whose buildings on Wolseley road featured within the earlier publish.
And though I made half a dozen exposures on Tooley St, one on Honest Road and several other on Tower Bridge Street, that is the one one on-line. I do typically discover it onerous to know why I’ve not scanned some photos and maybe at some point I’ll come again and fill within the gaps. However for the second that is the one image right here from this part of the route.
It exhibits the 2 buildings on the nook with Lafone St, which runs north from Tooley Road to Shad Thames. Tower Coachworks has been demolished and changed by new flats, however the giant warehouse blocks at left, which run throughout the entire block to Boss St and up Lafone St to Queen Elizabeth St was refurbished by the London Docklands Improvement Company into a big residential growth, Boss Home. Q’s Ltd Snooker & Pool Membership with its line of arrows to information even essentially the most shortsighted or inebriated to its entrance at rear has lengthy gone. The three warehouses dates from someplace round 1900 and there was a brief road throughout the center, Goat St, whose title can simply be seen above the van parked on Lafone St, no less than on a bigger model of this body.
Sarson’s vinegar works had been on a big website on Tower Bridge Street with these vats seen from Tanner St. Their presence was very obvious by the odor which pervaded the world – I couldn’t stroll previous with out pondering of fish and chips – though in line with Wikipedia manufacturing had moved to Manchester in 1968, it truly continued via the Nineteen Eighties and the works solely closed in 1992.
Thomas Sarson is claimed to have first brewed his malt vinegar in 1794 in Shoreditch, although apparently this date is unlikely and possibly Sarson’s solely made cheaper ‘wooden’ vinegar till 1894. Sarson’s vinegar was briefly offered as ‘”Sarson’s Virgin Vinegar’ however that title was quickly dropped. There’s a very detailed article Simply Say Sarsons by Tim Smith in a GLIAS Journal in regards to the firm with descriptions and images from a finely detailed recording go to. The vinegar works had been begun by Noah Slee and a Mr Vickers round 1814, however later tremendously expanded. The works had been run by the Slee household till a merger with Champions in 1908 and their household connection continued till the formation of British Vinegars Ltd in 1932. Later they turned part of Nestlé and the Sarson’s model is now owned by a Japanese vinegar firm, who additionally personal my favorite Hayward’s Pickled Onions.
The positioning was redeveloped from 2000 on, with its Grade II listed buildings being transformed into flats and different buildings reminiscent of these vats being demolished and changed by fashionable flats.
Additional west alongside Tanner St are these three adjoining buildings at 1-3 Tanner St. The Bermondsey Wire Works title has pale slightly extra however in any other case that constructing appears to be like a lot the identical, whereas Neon Producers at No 2 is quite extra tidier, has misplaced its unique home windows and all signage and has a brand new door and porch. No 3 has additionally had one thing of a face-lift however retains most of its former character, however the hoist not has a bucket hooked up.
These buildings had been nonetheless very clearly in business use again in 1988, however I feel now most are studios, places of work and residential, and I feel I went to an exhibition in certainly one of them a number of years in the past. Tanner Road was initially generally known as 5 Foot Lane and most of it was on a map by 1544. The second a part of the story by Richard Miller offers with it after it was renamed Russell Road within the late 18th century when it contained the Bermondsey Workhouse, and half 3 appears to be like at it after Bermondsey Parish Council renamed it Tanner Road in 1881, reflecting the principle commerce then carried on there. The workhouse closed in 1922, and the positioning was purchased with funds from promoting St Olave’s Church in Tooley Road to Hay’s Wharf – and part of that church’s tower, now Grade II listed, was put in as a ingesting fountain in Tanner Road Recreation Floor which opened on the positioning in 1929. The park bought slightly bigger within the Nineteen Nineties.
Cockle & Co, Bermondsey Mesh and Wireworks had been at 109 Bermondsey St from 1903-1919 and their works stretched across the nook right here into Tanner St. Based on the Bermondsey Boy website, No 3 -7 had been in-built 1838 for 3 separate companies however had been purchased by the Simmons Firm, makers of perambulators, mail carts and stretchers in 1888 and later additionally they owned No 1 – you’ll be able to see a few of their commercials on thesite. Simmons offered No 1 in 1952 and closed the enterprise in 1959.
Bermondsey Sq. appears to be like very completely different now to once I took this image in 1988 and I feel the precise place the place I used to be standing could now be inside the bottom ground of the Bermondsey Sq. Resort. My shadow within the foreground exhibits me trying throughout the grass space in the direction of the nook of Lengthy Lane and Bermondsey St. The constructing then the Bermondsey Vintage Market remains to be there – as is St Mary’s Church, however quite than antiques it’s now ‘Flour & Grape’ which Google now tells me is an Italian restaurant and “A 3-min stroll from the White Dice“. What’s left of Bermondsey Sq. is now paved and though there’s a small inexperienced space with seating on the entrance of the lodge it appears to be like very plastic.
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