View of 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. In the foreground is the St Saviour's War Memorial, unveiled in 1922. Costing £4000, it was paid for by public subscription following a competition organised by the local war memorial committee. The winning design was by the sculptor Philip Lindsey Clark who served on the Western Front in World War I. The bronze figure, according to the sculptor, was intended to “express the same dogged determination and unconquerable spirit displayed by all branches of our forces on land, on the seas, and in the air”. It is Grade II* listed, number 1378368. A hand cart is parked behind the memorial. To the left, number 54 is an early-eighteenth century three-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer window. On the dormer window and above the shop window is a sign: FIELD & Son, Estate Agents and Surveyors. On the second floor is a 'Sun Fire Mark'. Starting after the Great Fire of London in 1666, these marks indicated the company with which the building was insured. Each company had its own fire brigade, but in this case the building had formerly been the offices of the Sun Fire and Life Company. A sign hanging from the first floor has sun faces looking in both directions along the road. The site was at one time an inn known as the Hen and Chickens. During the nineteenth century the building was a drapers, and in the early 1870s a hardware shop. In September 1875 it played a role in a murder. Henry Wainwright was apprehended at the building, then rented by his brother, attempting to hide the remains of Harriet Lane whom he had murdered the previous year. He was hanged outside Newgate Prison in December 1875. This is now an estate agents and the building is Grade II listed, number 1428936. Number 50 an early-eighteenth century three-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer window. Above the shop window are signs for PIKE SONS & Co and TABRUM AND SON, both hop merchants. The building is Grade II listed, number 1378349. A sign for CALVERTS BUILDING above an arched carriageway leads to a timber-framed two-storey building reputed to be built in 1542; originally The Goat Inn public house and later called The Brew House. Calvert's Buildings takes its name from Felix Calvert, brewer, who occupied the site from 1786 to 1794. The building is Grade II listed, number 1378350. Numbers 40 -50 form part of an eighteenth-century terrace. Numbers 44-48 are narrow four-storey buildings that have been combined as one, with a sign ROYAL INSURANCE GROUP, DELTA HOUSE with a Jaguar and MG Sports car parked outside. It is now an estate agents. Number 42 is a three-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer window, and a sign for EAGLE STAR INSURANCE. In 1843 this building was occupied by Eagleton and Glover, Tailors; and is now an estate agents. Number 40 is a three-storey building with mansard roof and dormer windows. The sign IVORY and LEDOUX above the shop window. Mr A. J. Ivory and Mr L. Ledoux founded the company in 1907 to improve the quality and variety of ingredients for the UK food industry and continues to trade with headquarters in Belsize Park. The building was refurbished in 1991 as offices and is Grade II listed, number 1378348.