I can now not bear in mind whether or not the brief tour to Greenland Dock from Rotherhithe got here on the finish of my earlier stroll or just a few days later firstly of my stroll on twenty eighth October 1988, although after all it doesn’t actually matter. The story of my earlier stroll started at Greenwich and Deptford Creek October 1988 and ended with Deptford to Rotherhithe October 1988.
I’m not sure now whether or not I took the fist few of those footage on the finish of my earlier stroll or initially of my subsequent one, but it surely hardly issues as they’re in the identical space and inside just a few days of one another.
This is among the two bridges that linked the riverside areas of Rotherhithe and the Surrey Docks to the world round Decrease Highway and Surrey Quays station, then on the East London which ran between Shoreditch and alternately to New Cross or New Cross Gate, linking to the District line at Whitechapel. Each have been preserved, although not in working order and this one a brief distance from it former website.
On the centre of the image you’ll be able to see the curved decrease finish of the bridge and under it the flat rail on which it rolled again to boost the bascule, with a heavy counterweight above so little or no energy was wanted to boost the bridge.
A number of relics from the working docks, together with this capstan are nonetheless current on the east finish of Greenland Quay.
4 individuals in kayaks hyperlink up and cease to speak to one another in Greenland Dock. I used to be standing on the finish of Greenland Quay and searching in the direction of the tower blocks of the Barkantine Property on the Isle of Canines throughout the Thames.
My subsequent image was made in Southwark Park, which I believe I walked by means of to Jamaica Highway. I’m not completely certain what the constructing within the background was, and I believe the world it was in has now been re-developed. Someplace within the north-east nook of the park it was in all probability part of the previous St Olave’s Hospital which closed in 1984 and was demolished and changed by Ann Moss Manner within the Nineties.
I appear intentionally to have tried to make this image mysterious, taking three near-identical frames, an uncommon quantity for me on the time when movie was comparatively costly.
This works was subsequent to Main Highway, although I’m unsure if it took its identify from the street or gave its identify to it. It was demolished to construct Bermondsey Underground Station on the Jubilee Line Extension which opened initially of 2000. In response to the textual content on its frontage the corporate was ‘Established 1827’ and made ‘Flooring Adhesives, French Polishes, Wax Polishes, Varnishes, Seals, Staines – And many others.’
Comparatively few streets within the space aspire to a No 90 and none that I can discover that look something like this now. This was part of a terrace of 5 comparable homes beginning at a road nook, with two pairs of doorways on the road and one across the nook as one other body (not digitised) exhibits. It seems to be later Victorian and I believe has been demolished. The gate was maybe a Thirties addition.
Lockwood Sq. was a 1960’s addition to the council’s Southwark Park Property with flats round a central grass space. There had been a Lockwood Avenue right here and it was in all probability badly broken by wartime bombing. The buildings are bounded by Drummond Highway, Clements Highway and Southwark Park Highway. Among the floor ground is garages and there are just a few store models. To the north is a play space and Saint Crispin with Christ Church Bermondsey and the same block of New Place Sq..
To be continued…
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