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Lloyds Wharf is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.





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Graham O’Connell   
Added: 10 Apr 2021 10:24 GMT   

Lloyd & Sons, Tin Box Manufacturers (1859 - 1982)
A Lloyd & Sons occupied the wharf (now known as Lloyds Wharf, Mill Street) from the mid 19th Century to the late 20th Century. Best known for making tin boxes they also produced a range of things from petrol canisters to collecting tins. They won a notorious libel case in 1915 when a local councillor criticised the working conditions which, in fairness, weren’t great. There was a major fire here in 1929 but the company survived at least until 1982 and probably a year or two after that.

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The Underground Map   
Added: 20 Sep 2020 13:01 GMT   

Pepys starts diary
On 1 January 1659, Samuel Pepys started his famous daily diary and maintained it for ten years. The diary has become perhaps the most extensive source of information on this critical period of English history. Pepys never considered that his diary would be read by others. The original diary consisted of six volumes written in Shelton shorthand, which he had learned as an undergraduate on scholarship at Magdalene College, Cambridge. This shorthand was introduced in 1626, and was the same system Isaac Newton used when writing.

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Tricia   
Added: 27 Apr 2021 12:05 GMT   

St George in the East Church
This Church was opened in 1729, designed by Hawksmore. Inside destroyed by incendrie bomb 16th April 1941. Rebuilt inside and finished in 1964. The building remained open most of the time in a temporary prefab.

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Christine D Elliott   
Added: 11 Jun 2023 14:50 GMT   

Spitalfields
Charles Blutte came to Spitalfields from Walincourt, Picardie, France for reason of religious persecution. His brother Pierre Phillippe Blutte followed the following year. Between the two brothers they had eventually 20 children, they worked as silk weavers around the Brick Lane area. Member’s of Pierre’s family resided at 40 Thomas Street for over 100 years. Another residence associated with the Blutte family is Vine Court, Lamb Street, Spitalfields, number 16,17 & 18 Vine Court was owned by John Kindon, the father in law of Charles Blutte’s son Jean (John) who married Ann Kindon. This residence appears several times in the census records.

Source: Quarto_52_Vol_LII_La_Providence

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Born here
jack stevens   
Added: 26 Sep 2021 13:38 GMT   

Mothers birth place
Number 5 Whites Row which was built in around 1736 and still standing was the premises my now 93 year old mother was born in, her name at birth was Hilda Evelyne Shaw,

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Lived here
margaret clark   
Added: 15 Oct 2021 22:23 GMT   

Margaret’s address when she married in 1938
^, Josepine House, Stepney is the address of my mother on her marriage certificate 1938. Her name was Margaret Irene Clark. Her father Basil Clark was a warehouse grocer.

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Admin   
Added: 26 Aug 2022 15:19 GMT   

Bus makes a leap
A number 78 double-decker bus driven by Albert Gunter was forced to jump an accidentally opening Tower Bridge.

He was awarded a £10 bonus.

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fariba   
Added: 28 Jun 2021 00:48 GMT   

Tower Bridge Business Complex, S
need for my coursework

Source: university

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The Underground Map   
Added: 8 Mar 2021 15:05 GMT   

A plague on all your houses
Aldgate station is built directly on top of a vast plague pit, where thousands of bodies are apparently buried. No-one knows quite how many.

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Added: 21 Apr 2021 16:21 GMT   

Liverpool Street
the Bishopsgate station has existed since 1840 as a passenger station, but does not appear in the site’s cartography. Evidently, the 1860 map is in fact much earlier than that date.

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Lived here
KJ   
Added: 11 Apr 2021 12:34 GMT   

Family
1900’s Cranmer family lived here at 105 (changed to 185 when road was re-numbered)
James Cranmer wife Louisa ( b.Logan)
They had 3 children one being my grandparent William (Bill) CRANMER married to grandmother “Nancy” He used to go to
Glengall Tavern in Bird in Bush Rd ,now been converted to flats.

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Added: 27 Jul 2021 14:31 GMT   

correction
Chaucer did not write Pilgrims Progress. His stories were called the Canterbury Tales

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Added: 3 Jun 2021 15:50 GMT   

All Bar One
The capitalisation is wrong

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Carolyn Hirst   
Added: 16 Jul 2022 15:21 GMT   

Henry James Hirst
My second great grandfather Henry James Hirst was born at 18 New Road on 11 February 1861. He was the eighth of the eleven children of Rowland and Isabella Hirst. I think that this part of New Road was also known at the time as Gloucester Terrace.

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Jonathan Cocking   
Added: 30 Aug 2022 13:38 GMT   

Tower Bridge, SE1
The driver subsequently married his clippie (conductress).

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Pearl Foster   
Added: 20 Mar 2023 12:22 GMT   

Dukes Place, EC3A
Until his death in 1767, Daniel Nunes de Lara worked from his home in Dukes Street as a Pastry Cook. It was not until much later the street was renamed Dukes Place. Daniel and his family attended the nearby Bevis Marks synagogue for Sephardic Jews. The Ashkenazi Great Synagogue was established in Duke Street, which meant Daniel’s business perfectly situated for his occupation as it allowed him to cater for both congregations.

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Matthew Proctor   
Added: 7 Dec 2023 17:36 GMT   

Blackheath Grove, SE3
Road was originally known as The Avenue, then became "The Grove" in 1942.

From 1864 there was Blackheath Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on this street until it was destroyed by a V2 in 1944

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Peter   
Added: 4 Dec 2023 07:05 GMT   

Gambia Street, SE1
Gambia Street was previously known as William Street.

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Eileen   
Added: 10 Nov 2023 09:42 GMT   

Brecknock Road Pleating Company
My great grandparents ran the Brecknock Road pleating Company around 1910 to 1920 and my Grandmother worked there as a pleater until she was 16. I should like to know more about this. I know they had a beautiful Victorian house in Islington as I have photos of it & of them in their garden.

Source: Family history

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Added: 6 Nov 2023 16:59 GMT   

061123
Why do Thames Water not collect the 15 . Three meter lengths of blue plastic fencing, and old pipes etc. They left here for the last TWO Years, these cause an obstruction,as they halfway lying in the road,as no footpath down this road, and the cars going and exiting the park are getting damaged, also the public are in Grave Danger when trying to avoid your rubbish and the danger of your fences.

Source: Squirrels Lane. Buckhurst Hill, Essex. IG9. I want some action ,now, not Excuses.MK.

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Christian   
Added: 31 Oct 2023 10:34 GMT   

Cornwall Road, W11
Photo shows William Richard Hoare’s chemist shop at 121 Cornwall Road.

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Vik   
Added: 30 Oct 2023 18:48 GMT   

Old pub sign from the Rising Sun
Hi I have no connection to the area except that for the last 30+ years we’ve had an old pub sign hanging on our kitchen wall from the Rising Sun, Stanwell, which I believe was / is on the Oaks Rd. Happy to upload a photo if anyone can tell me how or where to do that!

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Phillip Martin   
Added: 16 Oct 2023 06:25 GMT   

16 Ashburnham Road
On 15 October 1874 George Frederick Martin was born in 16 Ashburnham Road Greenwich to George Henry Martin, a painter, and Mary Martin, formerly Southern.

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Lived here
Christine Bithrey   
Added: 15 Oct 2023 15:20 GMT   

The Hollies (1860 - 1900)
I lived in Holly Park Estate from 1969 I was 8 years old when we moved in until I left to get married, my mother still lives there now 84. I am wondering if there was ever a cemetery within The Hollies? And if so where? Was it near to the Blythwood Road end or much nearer to the old Methodist Church which is still standing although rather old looking. We spent most of our childhood playing along the old dis-used railway that run directly along Blythwood Road and opposite Holly Park Estate - top end which is where we live/ed. We now walk my mothers dog there twice a day. An elderly gentleman once told me when I was a child that there used to be a cemetery but I am not sure if he was trying to scare us children! I only thought about this recently when walking past the old Methodist Church and seeing the flag stone in the side of the wall with the inscription of when it was built late 1880

If anyone has any answers please email me [email protected]

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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Bridge House Built around 1705 and demolished in 1950, Bridge House in George Row was once surrounded by the Jacob’s Island rookery.
Jacob’s Island Jacob’s Island was a notorious slum in Bermondsey during the 19th century.
Turk’s Head The Turk’s Head was one of two Wapping pubs of the same name.

NEARBY STREETS
Abbey Gardens, SE1 Abbey Gardens is a road in the SE1 postcode area
Abbey Street, SE1 Abbey Street takes its name from Bermondsey Abbey which was situated between Bermondsey Square, Grange Walk and Long Walk.
Arabella Street, SE16 Arabella Street runs off of Old Jamaica Road.
Arc House, SE1 Arc House is a block on Tanner Street.
Archie Street, SE1 Archie Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Attilburgh House, SE1 Attilburgh House is a block on Abbey Street.
Bala Place, SE16 Frederick Place - later Bala Place - first appears on the 1860s map.
Barnham Street, SE1 Barnham Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Bell Yard Mews, SE1 A street within the SE1 postcode
Bell Yaroad Mews, SE1 A street within the SE1 postcode
Ben Smith Way, SE16 Ben Smith Way follows the line of the former longer northern section of Stork’s Road.
Bermondsey Wall West, SE16 Bermondsey Wall West is one of the streets of London in the SE16 postal area.
Bevington Path, SE1 Bevington Path is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Bevington Street, SE16 Bevington Street was named after Samuel Bourne Bevington, the first mayor in 1900 of the new Bermondsey Borough Council.
Boss Street, SE1 Boss Street runs north off Tooley Street.
Boulogne House, SE1 Boulogne House is a block on The Grange.
Bowley House, SE16 Bowley House is a block on Old Jamaica Road.
Breton House, SE1 Breton House is a block on Abbey Street.
Bridewain Street, SE1 A street within the SE1 postcode
Bromfield Court, SE16 Bromfield Court is sited on Jamaica Road.
Bromleigh House, SE1 Bromleigh House is a block on Abbey Street.
Brunswick Court, SE1 Brunswick Court is a road in the SE1 postcode area
Burnaby Court, SE16 Burnaby Court is sited on Scott Lidgett Crescent.
Butlers & Colonial Wharf, SE1 A street within the SE1 postcode
Butlers Colonial Wharf, SE1 Butlers Colonial Wharf is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Butlers Wharf, SE1 Located on the south bank of the River Thames, just east of Tower Bridge, Butler’s Wharf is a Grade II listed building that now houses luxury flats and restaurants.
Calico Court, SE16 Calico Court is a block on Marine Street.
Cambridge House, SE1 Cambridge House is a block on Potters Fields Park.
Candishe House, SE1 Candishe House is a block on Queen Elizabeth Street.
Canvas House, SE1 A street within the SE1 postcode
Caraway Apartments, SE1 Caraway Apartments is a building on Lafone Street.
Cardamom Building, SE1 Cardamom Building is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Casby House, SE16 Casby House is a block on Jamaica Road.
Cayenne Court, SE1 Cayenne Court is a block on Cayenne Court.
Chambers Street, SE16 Chambers Street is one of the streets of London in the SE16 postal area.
Chartes House, SE1 Chartes House is located on Stevens Street.
Cinnamon Wharf, Cinnamon Wharf lies within the postcode.
Commercial Pier Wharf, SE1 Commercial Pier Wharf is a road in the SE16 postcode area
Cooperage Court, SE1 Cooperage Court is sited on Gainsford Street.
Copper Row, SE1 Copper Row is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Copperfield House, SE1 Copperfield House, like much of the Dickens Estate, is named after a fictional character.
Coriander Court, SE1 Coriander Court is a block on Shad Thames.
Crown Apartments, SE1 Crown Apartments is a block on Queen Elizabeth Street.
Curlew Street, SE1 Curlew Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Dartle Court, SE16 Dartle Court can be found on Dartle Court.
De Wyndsor Court, SE16 De Wyndsor Court is a block on Jamaica Road.
Devon Mansions, SE1 Devon Mansions is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Dockhead, SE1 Dockhead is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Dombey House, SE1 Dombey House is a block on Wolseley Street.
Dombey House, SE16 Dombey House was one of the first blocks built on the Dickens Estate.
Druid Street, SE1 Druid Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Duchess Walk, SE1 Duchess Walk is a location in London.
East Lane, SE16 East Lane - formerly a single street - has been split postwar into two sections.
Eyot House, SE16 Eyot House is a block on Marine Street.
Fair Street, SE1 Fair Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Fennel Apartments, SE1 Fennel Apartments is a block on Lafone Street.
Flockton Street, SE16 The route that Flockton Street follows dates from before the eighteenth century.
Freda Street, SE16 Freda Street runs off of Marine Street.
Gainsford Street, SE1 Gainsford Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Gainsforoad Street, SE1 A street within the SE1 postcode
Gedling Place, SE1 A street within the SE1 postcode
George Row, SE16 George Row is one of the streets of London in the SE16 postal area.
Ginger Apartments, SE1 Ginger Apartments is a block on Curlew Street.
Godwin House, SE1 Godwin House is a block on Still Walk.
Grange Walk, SE16 Grange Walk is a road in the SE16 postcode area
Haredale House, SE16 Haredale House is a block on East Lane.
Havisham House, SE16 Havisham House is a block on Llewellyn Street.
Hellings Street, E1W A street within the E1W postcode
Hickman’s Folly, SE1 Hickman’s Folly was a very old Bermondsey street which disappeared as the Dickens Estate was built.
Hobb’s Court, SE1 Hobb’s Court can be found on Jacob Street.
Hobbs Court, SE1 A street within the SE1 postcode
Horace Jones House, SE1 Horace Jones House is a block on Duchess Walk.
Horselydown Lane, SE1 Horselydown Lane is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
India House, SE1 India House is a building on Curlew Street.
Jacob Street, SE1 Jacob Street is named after Jacob’s Island, the infamous area which preceded it.
Jamaica Road, SE1 The SE1 section of Jamaica Road dates only from the 1960s.
Jamaica Road, SE16 Jamaica Road was named after a house which sold limes, oranges and rum.
John Felton Road, SE16 John Felton Road is one of the streets of London in the SE16 postal area.
John Roll Way, SE16 John Roll Way is one of the streets of London in the SE16 postal area.
Kimmins Court, SE16 Kimmins Court is a block in Arabella Street.
Knights House, SE1 Knights House is a block on Gainsford Street.
Lafone Street, SE1 Lafone Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Lewes House, SE1 Lewes House is located on Druid Street.
Lilley Close, E1W Lilley Close serves modern developments in Wapping.
Little London Court, SE1 A street within the SE1 postcode
Little London Mill House, SE1 Little London Mill House can be found on Dockhead.
Llewellyn Street, SE16 Llewellyn Street is one of the streets of London in the SE16 postal area.
Long Walk, SE1 Long Walk is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Loveland Court, SE1 Loveland Court is located on Jamaica Road.
Luna House, SE16 Luna House is a block on Bermondsey Wall West.
Maggie Blake’s Cause, SE1 Maggie Blake’s Cause is a road in the SE1 postcode area
Maguire Street, SE1 Maguire Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Maltby Street, SE1 Maltby Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Maltings Place, SE1 Maltings Place is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Marine Street, SE16 Marine Street connects Jamaica Road with Old Jamaica Road.
Marlow House, SE1 Marlow House is located on Maltby Street.
Meridian Court, SE16 Meridian Court is a block on Bermondsey Wall West.
Micawber House, SE16 Micawber House is a building on Llewellyn Street.
Mill Stream Road, SE1 Mill Stream Road (or Millstream Road) was demolished to make way for the Arnold Estate.
Mill Street, SE1 Mill Street runs along the east side of St Saviour’s Dock.
Millennium Square, SE1 A street within the SE1 postcode
More London Riverside, SE1 More London Riverside is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Nasmith Court, SE16 Nasmith Court is a block on Old Jamaica Road.
Neckinger Mills, SE1 Neckinger Mills is a location in London.
Neckinger Place, SE1 Neckinger Place was a small turning off Druid Street.
Neckinger Street, SE1 Neckinger Street is a road in the SE1 postcode area
Neckinger, SE16 Neckinger is a road in the SE16 postcode area
New Amelia Apartments, SE1 New Amelia Apartments is a block on Abbey Street.
New Concordia Wharf, SE1 The New Concordia Wharf Victorian warehouses were converted into flats by Waterhouse (Andrew Wadsworth and Robert Ackland) in 1983.
Norman House, SE1 Norman House is a block on Riley Road.
Old Jamaica Road Business Estate, SE16 Old Jamaica Road Business Estate is a commercial estate.
Old Jamaica Road, SE16 Old Jamaica Road originated as Prospect Row in the late eighteenth century.
Parchment Building, SE1 Parchment Building is a block on Grange Walk.
Parker Building, SE16 Parker Building is a block on Freda Street.
Parkers Row, SE1 Parkers Row is a street which has diminished in significance since it was first built.
Peter Butler House, SE1 Peter Butler House is a block on Jacob Street.
Phoenix Wharf Road, SE1 Phoenix Wharf Road is a road in the SE1 postcode area
Pickwick House, SE16 Pickwick House is a block on Flockton Street.
Pitman Building, SE1 Pitman Building is a block on Jamaica Road.
Plough Alley, E1W Plough Alley appears on the 1860 map.
Pope Street, SE1 Pope Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Potters Fields, SE1 Potters Fields is a road in the SE1 postcode area
Preston House, SE1 Preston House is a block on Stanworth Street.
Priory Court, SE1 Priory Court is a block on Abbey Street.
Prospect House, SE16 Prospect House can be found on Sun Passage.
Providence Square, SE1 Providence Square is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Providence Tower, SE16 Providence Tower can be found on Bermondsey Wall West.
Queen Elizabeth Street, SE1 Queen Elizabeth Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Queens Court, SE16 Queens Court is located on Old Jamaica Road.
Radcliffe Road, SE1 Radcliffe Road is a road in the SE1 postcode area
Raven Wharf, SE1 Raven Wharf is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Riley Road, SE1 Riley Road is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Rope Walk, SE1 Rope Walk is a road in the SE1 postcode area
Rudge House, SE16 Rudge House is a block on Scott Lidgett Crescent.
Rufus House, SE1 Rufus House is a block on Stanworth Street.
Sandringham House, SE1 Sandringham House is a block on Potters Fields.
Scott Lidgett Crescent, SE16 Scott Lidgett Crescent is a road in the SE16 postcode area
Scotts Sufferance Wharfmill Street, SE1 Scotts Sufferance Wharfmill Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Shad Thames, SE1 Shad Thames is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Spenlow House, SE16 Spenlow House can be found on Spenlow House.
Springalls Wharf Apartments, SE16 Springalls Wharf Apartments is a block on Bermondsey Wall West.
St James’s Road, SE16 St James’s Road is a long Bermondsey street running south from Jamaica Road.
St Lawrence House, SE1 St Lawrence House can be found on Purbrook Street.
St Owen House, SE1 St Owen House is sited on Abbey Street.
St Saviours House, SE16 St Saviours House is a block on Bermondsey Wall West.
Stanworth Street, SE1 Stanworth Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Stevens Street, SE1 Stevens Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Sugar Lane, SE16 Sugar Lane is a location in London.
Sun Passage, SE16 A street within the SE16 postcode
Sweeney Crescent, SE1 Sweeney Crescent is a road in the SE1 postcode area
Tamarind Court, SE1 Tamarind Court is a block on Gainsford Street.
Tanner House, SE1 Tanner House is a block on Tanner Street.
Tanner Street, SE1 Tanner Street is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Tapley House, SE1 Tapley House was one of the first buildings of the Dickens Estate.
The Cardamom Building, SE1 The Cardamom Building is a block on Shad Thames.
The Circle, SE1 The Circle is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
The Italian Building, SE1 The Italian Building is a block on Dockhead.
The Queens Walk, SE1 The Queens Walk is a location in London.
The Royal George Apartments, SE1 The Royal George Apartments is a block on Abbey Street.
The Tower, SE1 The Tower is a block on Potters Fields.
Thetford House, SE1 Thetford House is a block on Abbey Street.
Three Oak Lane, SE1 Three Oak Lane is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Thurland Road, SE16 Thurland Road is one of the streets of London in the SE16 postal area.
Toussaint Walk, SE16 Toussaint Walk is a walkway along a former part of Stork’s Road.
Tower Bridge Court, SE1 Tower Bridge Court is a block next to its namesake in Southwark.
Tower Bridge Piazza, SE1 Tower Bridge Piazza is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Tower Bridge Road, SE1 Tower Bridge Road leads to Tower Bridge.
Tower Workshops, SE1 Tower Workshops is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.
Truscott Court, SE1 Truscott Court was off Curlew Street.
Tudor House, SE1 Tudor House is a block on Duchess Walk.
Tupman House, SE16 Tupman House is sited on Scott Lidgett Crescent.
Unity Wharf, SE1 Unity Wharf is a road in the SE1 postcode area
Vanilla and Sesame Court, SE1 Vanilla and Sesame Court is a block on Curlew Street.
Vogans Mill Wharf, SE1 Mill Wharf was occupied by Vogan, a company that ground grain and exotic spices from the East and West Indies until 1987.
Wade House, SE1 Residential block
Wade House, SE1 Wade House is a road in the SE16 postcode area
Waterside Close, SE16 Waterside Close is a road in the SE16 postcode area
Weavers Lane, SE1 Weavers Lane is a road in the SE1 postcode area
Wessex House, SE1 Wessex House is a block on Still Walk.
Wharton House, SE1 Wharton House is a block on Millstream Road.
Whistlers House, SE1 Whistlers House is a block on Gainsford Street.
Windlesham House, SE1 Windlesham House is a block on Duchess Walk.
Wolseley Street, SE1 Wolseley Street was formerly called London Street.
Wrayburn House, SE16 Wrayburn House is a block on Llewellyn Street.
Yates Court, SE1 Yates Court is located on Jamaica Road.
Zanzibar Court, E1W Zanzibar Court lies along Wapping High Street.
Zeno House, SE1 Zeno House is a block on Long Walk.

NEARBY PUBS
Turk’s Head The Turk’s Head was one of two Wapping pubs of the same name.


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Bermondsey

The name Bermondsey first appears in a letter from Pope Constantine during the 8th century.

Pope Constantine (708-715), in a letter, granted privileges to a monastery at Vermundesei, then in the hands of the abbot of Medeshamstede (as Peterborough was known at the time).

Though Bermondsey’s name may derive from Beornmund’s island (whoever the Anglo-Saxon Beornmund was, is another matter), but Bermondsey is likely to have been a higher, drier spot in an otherwise marshy area, rather than a real island.

Bermondsey appears in the Domesday Book and it was then held by King William (the Conqueror). A small part of the area was in the hands of Robert, Count of Mortain - William’s half brother.

Bermondsey Abbey was founded in 1082 as a Cluniac priory, with St Saviour as the patron.

The monks from the abbey began to develop the area, cultivating land and embanking the river. They put a dock at the mouth of River Neckinger, an adjacent tidal inlet. Records show this was called St Savior’s Dock, after their abbey.

Also owning land here was the Knights Templar. They gave a names to one of the most distinctive streets in London - Shad Thames, a later corruption of ’St John at Thames’.

Other ecclesiastical properties stood nearby. The name ’Tooley Street’ was another corruption - this time of St Olave’s’ Street. It was located in the Archbishop of Canterbury’s manor of Southwark. In Tooley Street, wealthy citizens and clerics built houses.

After the Great Fire of London, Bermondsey started to be settled by the well-to-do. It took on the character of a garden suburb - especially along Grange Road.

A pleasure garden - the Cherry Garden - was founded in the area in the 17th century near to the current Cherry Garden Pier. In 1664, Samuel Pepys visited ’Jamaica House’ in the gardens and wrote in his diary that he had left it "singing finely". Later, from the garden, J.M.W. Turner painted The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken Up (1839), showing the veteran warship being towed to Rotherhithe to be scrapped.

The church of St Mary Magdalen in Bermondsey Street was completed in 1690, although a church has been recorded on the site since the 13th century. This church survived both 19th-century redevelopment and the Blitz unscathed. It is an unusual survivor of this period in Bermondsey and in Inner London in general.

In the 18th century, the discovery of a spring from the River Neckinger in the area led to Bermondsey becoming a spa resort - then all the rage. The name Spa Road commemorates this - situated between Grange Road and Jamaica Road.

Bermondsey’s fortunes took a huge nosedive as the Industrial Revolution took hold. Certain industries were deemed too inconvenient to be carried on within the small area of the City of London and banished east - both north and south of the river. One such that came to dominate central Bermondsey was the processing of leather and hides.

Parts of Bermondsey, especially along the riverside, become a notorious slum. The area around St Saviour’s Dock and Shad Thames - known as Jacob’s Island - was one of the worst in London. In Charles Dickens’s novel Oliver Twist, the principal villain Bill Sikes meets a nasty end in the mud of ’Folly Ditch’ an area which was known as Hickmans Folly — the scene of an attack by Spring Heeled Jack in 1845 — surrounding Jacob’s Island. Dickens provides a vivid description of what it was like:

<CITE>... crazy wooden galleries common to the backs of half a dozen houses, with holes from which to look upon the slime beneath; windows, broken and patched, with poles thrust out, on which to dry the linen that is never there; rooms so small, so filthy, so confined, that the air would seem to be too tainted even for the dirt and squalor which they shelter; wooden chambers thrusting themselves out above the mud and threatening to fall into it — as some have done; dirt-besmeared walls and decaying foundations, every repulsive lineament of poverty, every loathsome indication of filth, rot, and garbage: all these ornament the banks of Jacob’s Island.</CITE>

In 1836, London’s first passenger railway terminus was built by the London & Greenwich Railway at London Bridge. The first section of the line to be used was between the Spa Road Station and Deptford High Street. But Spa Road station closed in 1915.

The area was extensively redeveloped during the 19th century and early 20th century with both the expansion of the river trade and the connectivity that the railway brought about. Bermondsey Town Hall - a mark of its civic emergence - was built on Spa Road in 1881. To the east of Tower Bridge, Bermondsey’s three and a half miles of riverside were lined with warehouses and wharves, of which the best known is Butler’s Wharf.

Many buildings from this era survive (around Leathermarket Street) including the huge Leather, Hide and Wool Exchange (now residential and small work spaces). Hepburn and Gale’s tannery, though now disused, on Long Lane is also a substantial survivor of the leather trade.

Peek, Frean and Company was established in 1857 at Dockhead by James Peek and George Hender Frean. They moved to a larger plant in Clements Road in 1866, leading to the nickname ’Biscuit Town’ for Bermondsey. They continued baking here until the brand was discontinued in 1989.

Wee Willie Harris - usually credited as the first British rock and roller - came from Bermondsey. He also worked in Peak Freans before his fame.

Bermondsey’s riverside suffered severe damage in Second World War bombing. A couple of decades later, the wharves became redundant following the collapse of the river trade. After standing derelict, many of the wharves were redeveloped by the London Docklands Development Corporation during the 1980s. They have now been converted into a mixture of residential and commercial accommodations and have become some of the most upmarket and expensive properties in London.

In 1910, Millwall F.C. had moved to a new stadium on Coldblow Lane, having previously played in Millwall on the Isle of Dogs. They kept their original name despite playing on the opposite side of the River Thames to the Millwall area. They played at The Den until 1993, when they relocated to the New Den nearby. The New Den is now back to being called The Den.

In 2000, Bermondsey tube station on the Jubilee Line Extension opened.


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Byward Tower, 1893
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Mill Street, SE1 (1987)
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In the neighbourhood...

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Bridge House, George Row, Bermondsey (1926)
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Folly Ditch, Jacob’s Island in the 19th century. Jacob’s Island was a notorious Bermondsey slum, cleared in the 1860s.
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Block on the Aylwin Estate
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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.
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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
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Mill Street, SE1 (1987)
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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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Parker’s Row, SE1 on 19 May 1956
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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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Tower Bridge (2021) Sometimes, during the various lockdowns, various normally-busy roads have been photogenically quiet
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