View of 146-154 Borough High Street, Southwark. Borough High Street is one of the oldest streets in London being the main thoroughfare from London Bridge to Kent since antiquity. Number 154 is a three-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer window. A painted sign on the wall for GRINDERY, and the shop sign for WADDINGTON. In the shop window are knives and scissors. In front of the shop is a horse with his head in a nose bag. Number 152 is a three-storey building with an overhanging second storey and an attic. A shop sign: MATHEWS & CO, BAKERS CONFECTIONERS AND TOOL MANUFACTURERS, TIN COPPER AND IRON PLATE WORKERS. In the window are pots, pans and moulds, and a sign BEST WHEATEN BREAD 5d. Number 150 is a three-storey building with an attic. Signs on the building CHAPLIN & CO., INDIA RUBBER, GUTTA PERCHA Est 1878. Gutta Percha was imported to the UK from Malaysia from 1845 and translates as Latex. Other signs include ELASTIC STOCKINGS. SUCTION HOSE, LEATHER LEGGINGS, BATHCHAIR AND PERAMBULATOR TYRES, BICYCLE CAPES, WATERPROOF LEGGINGS, WATERPROOF COATS. On the lamp hanging from the shop, a sign for LEGGINGS AND DRIVING APRONS. Hanging outside are capes, tyres and leather leggings. Between numbers 150 and 148 is an entrance to the cul-de-sac Adam's Place built in 1781 for Francis Adams. This development included the shops on either side of the entrance. Number 146 and 148 form four-storey buildings occupied by REDMAN & SONS butchers, with lamb carcasses hanging outside, and a dog standing in the doorway. On the shop sign ERECTED ABOUT TWO CENTURIES AGO FOUNDED 1885, although this date is inaccurate. A number of men are standing on the pavement looking at the camera, most wearing caps, although one is wearing a bowler hat and smoking a pipe. All these building were destroyed by bombing in World War II, and the area redeveloped mainly with office blocks.