Shops in Borough High Street
Shops in Borough High Street
Record No
115967
Title
Shops in Borough High Street
Description
View of 56-60 Borough High Street, Southwark. Number 60 is a four-storey building with a decorated pediment on the roof and over the door a relief of a lighthouse. This was a branch of the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation Limited, insurance company. Established in 1871 as the Ocean Railway and General Travellers’ Assurance Company Limited, it amalgamated in 1890 with the Ocean and General Guarantee Company Limited, and changed its name to Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation Limited. It was acquired in 1910 by Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited. Number 58 is a narrow four-storey building, with a shop sign for W. R. MILLER & Sons, solicitors. Built in the early-nineteenth century, the building had previously been Drewitt and Mummery undertakers. It remains a solicitors' office, and is Grade II listed, number 1378354. Number 56 is a narrow four-storey building with a Dutch-style gable, and plaster decoration above the first-floor window. A sign above the shop window: Society of Graphic and Allied Trades, London Women's Branch. This now forms part of the Graphical, Paper and Media Union (GPMU). In 1910 the building was the offices of the Royal Insurance Company and by 1921 it was occupied by the Tokyo Trading Company, export merchants. It is now an estate agents.
Date of execution
1972
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_365_72_35_138_19
London picture map location
Exact
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