My earlier submit on this stroll was Thames, Rotherhithe & Wapping 1988 and ended subsequent to the remoted former workplaces of Braithwaite & Dean, near the Angel pub on the financial institution of the Thames.
I walked a brief distance west by the river, photographing some current flats on Bermondsey Wall East and the riverside warehouse at Corbett’s wharf, since discretely refurbished (not digitised) earlier than turning down West Lane the place there was extra new housing and discovering The Evangelical Church of the Deaf which I feel was the place there may be now a brand new block of flats on Paradise Avenue.(additionally not digitised.)
The Servewell Cafe was then at quantity 14, and is now a number of doorways down in bigger premises, its former website now an Indian Takeaway. The barbers on the nook stays a Gents Hairdresser, however the wool store is now ‘glue bermondsey’ artistic area.
The Bermondsey & Rotherhithe Warfare Memorial is instantly in entrance of the retailers on West Lane, near its junction with Jamaica Highway on a large space of pavement. It was erected right here changing a short lived memorial in 1921 “to the honoured reminiscence of the lads of Bermondsey and Rotherhithe who fell within the nice struggle 1914 – 1918” and later inscriptions had been added for the Second World Warfare, together with “In remembrance of all these civilians and members of the civil defence and fireplace brigade companies who misplaced their lives on this neighborhood 1939 – 1945.” The coat of arms is that of the previous Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey with its motto ‘Prosunt Gentibus Artes‘ (arts revenue the individuals). Among the many sponsors of the memorial was the then proprietor of Peak Freans, Arthur Carr.
John Scott Lidgett (1854-1953) was a Methodist minister, educationalist and politician who was at varied occasions the primary President of the Methodist Convention, vice-chancellor of the College of London. He performed an essential position within the growth of girls’s schools and college assist for educate coaching. He grew to become an alderman of the London County Council and led the Progressive Occasion on the LCC from 1918-28.
In 1891 he established the Bermondsey Settlement, the one Methodist settlement, and have become its warden. Amongst those who this interested in commit themselves to return and dwell and work in the neighborhood had been Ada and Alfred Salter. The settlement closed in 1969.
These solidly constructed homes had been part of the persevering with redevelopment of the world which had been begun by Bermondsey Council – with the Salters as councillors and later Mayor and MP respectively, starting at Wilson Grove in 1927. Within the ten years after the struggle, the council and the LCC constructed 9,600 houses.
The Salvation Military Social Companies Hostel for Males on Spa Highway was a lot wanted in one of many nation’s most disadvantaged areas when this ‘elevator’, designed to each home males and supply some paid work to arrange them for work outdoors, opened in 1899. It was a waste paper depot and the lads had been employed in sorting the waste – recycling is nothing new.
Again in my childhood, earlier than going to church my father would kind all of the waste paper which had discovered its manner into our home, flattening the sheets, piling them on prime of one another earlier than rolling them up and tying the roll with string, to be put out subsequent to the dustbin for the council to gather.
The Spa Highway hostel additionally housed some Belgian refugees within the First World Warfare and Italian prisoners of struggle on the finish of WW2. A laundry was added within the Twenties. By the point I photographed it the laundry had closed however the centre additionally supplied different work, together with basket-weaving, carpentry, candle-making, and picture-framing. It lastly closed in 2001 and was demolished in 2003. The positioning is now occupied by a big block of flats.
Bermondsey City Corridor was solely Grade II listed 10 years after I made this image. It was constructed as an extension to the prevailing Victorian Bermondsey City Corridor in 1928-1930, architect Henry Tansley indulging in a deliberate recreation of the nineteenth century Greek Revival. I’ve not digitised the image I took of its grand frontage, however solely this picture exhibiting a element of the constructing, together with a few of its listed railings.
Planning permission was granted in 2012 for the conversion of the constructing into 41 houses and is now somewhat confusingly referred to as Previous City Corridor Residences.
Equally I’ve but to digitise the extra general picture of the library which is within the background to this image. The gate pier and railings are all that is still from one other municipal constructing, the previous Bermondsey City Corridor which was closely broken by wartime bombing and demolished within the 1960. The gate was stored when a brand new ‘One Cease Store’ changed the ruins, and it was retained when this was in flip demolished and changed by ‘The Alternate’ round 2013. Its floor ground is now a Sainsbury’s Native.
I wanders a bit of across the space by Spa Gardens making a picture of latest housing in Hazel Manner and previous in Balaclava Rd after which this which I feel is Dartford Home in Fort Highway, a part of the Longfield Property.
To be continued…
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