View of Borough High Street, Southwark, looking north. Borough High Street is one of the oldest streets in London being the main thoroughfare from London Bridge to Kent since antiquity. Number 21, on the corner with St Thomas Street, is a three-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer windows. On the ground floor a shop: SHOE REPAIRS. The building is now used as offices and a studio. On the opposite corner of St Thomas Street, numbers 25-29 form a 1960s four-storey bank building; built on the site of buildings damaged by bombing in World War II. It remains a Barclay's Bank. Number 31 is a narrow four-storey building with the shop awning sign: GUYS COFFEE HOUSE, named after the hospital at the rear of the building. Near number 33 is a small entrance with a sign above the door for a Luncheon and Dining Club, and gives access to a building at the rear of number 35. Number 35 is a narrow three-storey building with mansard roof and dormer windows. Magazines hang in the window and a Mini van with EVENING STANDARD on the side is parked outside. This had been occupied in 1950 by Miss E. Skinner, nurses' outfitter, and previously by Mathew Arnold, hosier. Number 37 is a narrow four-storey building with a Liff Chemist on the ground floor. A sign above the first floor for 'Restaurant', and above the fourth floor is a frieze for NEWSOM and WILLIAMS who were tea dealers in 1852. Numbers 31 to 37 were demolished and the site is now an entrance to London Bridge Underground Station with offices above. Number 39-41 form a four-storey building with the GRANADA RESTAURANT on the ground floor with net curtains in the windows, advertising 'Breakfasts, Luncheons and Suppers'. This building remains and is now a pharmacy. Number 43 is a four-storey building, with LEWIS TAYLOR butchers on the ground floor, with a push chair outside. On the first-floor windows are signs for DENTAL SURGEON. This building was previously a bank and is now a health food shop. A tall arch marks the entrance to Kings Head Yard, and the Kings Head public house with a sign: 'The Old Kings Head, Luncheon. Courage and Barclay' (brewers). Known as The Pope's Head until the Reformation, it is marked on a 1542 map. At the beginning of Elizabeth I's reign it was the property of Thomas Cure, and in 1588 passed to the family of Humbles. It was in the possession of Humble Ward or Baron Ward in 1647. The King's Head burnt down in the Great Fire of Southwark in 1676, but part of the building erected after the fire survived until 1885. Roman remains were found on the site of the inn in 1879–81 which indicated that an inhabited building had stood there during the Roman occupation. The inn was the property of St Thomas's Hospital in the eighteenth century and was leased to Henry Thrale. The current building dates from 1881 and the exterior has a sixteenth-century bust depicting King Henry VIII. The building is Grade II listed, number 1385638. Number 47 is a side door, and number 49 THE BEACON, L.GORDON, GENTLEMAN'S HAIRDRESSER AND TOBACCONIST. This is now a restaurant. Outside is a 'Police Post', these were introduced in the early-twentieth century to give police on the beat access to a telephone.