Blackman Street formed the southern portion of Borough High Street.
Stow notes in 1633 that Blackman Street began at the southern end of Long Southwark near St George Southwark and moved south towards the Parish of St Mary Newington.
In 1720, Strype depicted it as a "broad, but the Buildings and Inhabitants not much to be boasted of; the End next to Newington hath the West side open to St. Georges Fields being rather a Road than a Street".
A century later, Blackman Street is described in the accompanying text of Tallis’ Views as "a broad, open street, principally consisting of well supplied tradesmen’s shops. Its thoroughfare is very considerable, it being the leading road to the south of England".
It was combined into Borough High Street in 1889.
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Blackman Street formed the southern portion of Borough High Street.
