Maria Close, SE16

Maria Close is a road in the SE16 postcode area

Fete at Bermondsey �’ 1569

Credit: Joris Hoefnagel (1542 – 1601)

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Tony Whipple Frank Whipple Place, E14 Added: 16 Apr 2024 21:35 GMT	Frank Whipple Place, E14 Frank was my great-uncle, I’d often be ’babysat’ by Peggy while Nan and Dad went to the pub. Peggy was a marvel, so full of life. My Dad and Frank didn’t agree on most politics but everyone in the family is proud of him. A genuinely nice, knowledgable bloke. One of a kind. Reply
Theresa Penney Whites Row, E1 Added: 16 Apr 2024 18:08 GMT	1 Whites Row My 2 x great grandparents and his family lived here according to the 1841 census. They were Dutch Ashkenazi Jews born in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 19th century but all their children were born in Spitalfields. Reply
Wendy The Polygon Added: 22 Mar 2024 15:33 GMT	Polygon Buildings Following the demolition of the Polygon, and prior to the construction of Oakshott Court in 1974, 4 tenement type blocks of flats were built on the site at Clarendon Sq/Phoenix Rd called Polygon Buildings. These were primarily for people working for the Midland Railway and subsequently British Rail. My family lived for 5 years in Block C in the 1950s. It seems that very few photos exist of these buildings. Reply
Steve Charleville Circus, SE26 Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:42 GMT	Road construction and houses completed New Charleville Circus road layout shown on Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1879 with access via West Hill only. Plans showing street numbering were recorded in 1888 so we can concluded the houses in Charleville Circus were built by this date. Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London Reply
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Paul Cox Aldine Street, W12 Added: 5 Mar 2024 22:18 GMT	War damage reinstatement plans of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there. Reply

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Bridge House, George Row, Bermondsey (1926) TUM image id: 1557151298 Licence:	St. James’s Rd. Bermondsey c1910. TUM image id: 1557162129 Licence:	Folly Ditch, Jacob’s Island in the 19th century. Jacob’s Island was a notorious Bermondsey slum, cleared in the 1860s. Credit: Old and New London (published 1873) TUM image id: 1644241219 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Slipper’s Place, Rotherhithe (1958) Situated between Southwark Park and Southwark Park Road, this terrace was built c1850 on ground particularly unsuited to building, as the area had previously been a series of ditches and islands that fed into a mill stream. The site was cleared and new flats erected shortly after this photograph was taken. TUM image id: 1661077092 Licence:	Enid Street, SE16 looking from Rouel Road (1938) The houses had railway arches just outside their back doors. The original Lion pub can just be seen on the right corner and at the far end on the same side was The Windsor Castle. Both pubs survived the pre and post war slum clearance of the houses by Bermondsey Borough Council. The Lion was replaced in 1961 on the corner of Spa Road but The Windsor was demolished c.1965 and never rebuilt. The same view nowadays would include high modern flats to the left. TUM image id: 1634653197 Licence:
Jamaica Road (1900s) Despite being a road of eighteenth century origin, the western end of Jamaica Road, Bermondsey only dates from the 1960s. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1644251261 Licence:	Tram travelling along Jamaica Road (1912) This section of Jamaica Road was completely swept away when the road was realigned during the 1960s. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1644250563 Licence:	Mill Street, SE1 (1987) TUM image id: 1682593586 Licence:	Old Jamaica Road, SE16 (2012) Part of the Bermondsey Spa development, the curved building in this view includes a health centre. Bermondsey Spa is a major housing development in the area between the London-Greenwich Railway line and Jamaica Road, in the early years of the 21st century. The terraced housing that occupied most of the site was cleared by the 1950s. Credit: Geograph/Stephen Craven TUM image id: 1644272322 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Parker’s Row, SE1 on 19 May 1956 Credit: Serge Lansac/Picture Post/Hulton Archive TUM image id: 1644255838 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Spa Road station (c.1900) Spa Road station was one of the first of London’s railway stations, built by the London & Greenwich Railway (later the South Eastern and Chatham railway) in 1836 TUM image id: 1606839667 Licence:	The "Ha’penny Bumper" (tram) pictured on St James’s Road, SE1 Old London postcard TUM image id: 1620662351 Licence:	Wilson Grove, SE16 Wilson Grove includes a mini ’garden city’ with houses built in 1928 by Culpin & Bowers. Credit: Geograph/Stephen Richards TUM image id: 1644276510 Licence:	Wolseley Buildings, Wolseley Street, Bermondsey (1926) Tenements such as these were a common feature of inner south London in the late 19th and early 20th century. Typically they had been built by private landlords, some with a philanthropic inclination. TUM image id: 1625083809 Licence:	Hickman’s Folly. Bermondsey (1930s) Hickman’s Folly was a cul de sac which ran parallel and south of Wolseley Street and said to have been built on the site of a tannery. At one time it ran from Dockhead to George Row where it crossed the open Neckinger by a bridge. TUM image id: 1625932810 Licence:

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Slipper’s Place, Rotherhithe (1958) Situated between Southwark Park and Southwark Park Road, this terrace was built c1850 on ground particularly unsuited to building, as the area had previously been a series of ditches and islands that fed into a mill stream. The site was cleared and new flats erected shortly after this photograph was taken.
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Tram travelling along Jamaica Road (1912) This section of Jamaica Road was completely swept away when the road was realigned during the 1960s.
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Old Jamaica Road, SE16 (2012) Part of the Bermondsey Spa development, the curved building in this view includes a health centre. Bermondsey Spa is a major housing development in the area between the London-Greenwich Railway line and Jamaica Road, in the early years of the 21st century. The terraced housing that occupied most of the site was cleared by the 1950s.
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Spa Road station (c.1900) Spa Road station was one of the first of London’s railway stations, built by the London & Greenwich Railway (later the South Eastern and Chatham railway) in 1836
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The "Ha’penny Bumper" (tram) pictured on St James’s Road, SE1
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An old factory along Major Road, Bermondsey was eventually devoted to producing paint. The area was later redeveloped.
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Pearce & Duff blancmange factory After starting out as a cottage industry, the blancmange manufacturers Pearce & Duff moved to Rouel Road; SE16 in 1890, to the site of a glue factory - Young & Co. The Pearce & Duff factory closed after a fire in the 1960s.
Credit: Lambeth Archives
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Tommy Steele signing autographs in Frean Street, Bermondsey (1957) He was leaving to do the ’Six Five Special’ on TV.
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Storks Road, SE16, looking north from the junction with Webster Road (1935) Bermondsey Borough Council had a committee - the Beautification Committee - which undertook programmes of tree planting on the area’s streets. It planted many thousands of trees, mainly poplar, as seen here.
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Delivery trailers at Peek Frean’s biscuit factory (1961) The delivery yard at the Bermondsey bakery showing trailers and British Railways vans and tractor units taking the famous biscuits off to be distributed by train. The building proudly proclaims the years in existence - 1857 to 1961 at that point.
Credit: Peek Frean
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