View of Borough High Street
View of Borough High Street
Record No
115978
Title
View of Borough High Street
Description
View of 43-73 Borough High Street, Southwark. Numbers 69-73, a three-storey bank building built in 1928, are enclosed by scaffolding. It remains a Lloyds Bank. Number 67 is a three-storey building with a decorative weather vane on the roof. Built in the late-nineteenth century by William Henry and Herbert Le May, on the top floor, a large plaster frieze is inscribed with WH & H LeMay Hop Factors, decorated with two figures picking hops. Above the arched doorway is another frieze for WH & H LeMay Hop Factors. Hop factors represented growers, selling hops to dealers who would in turn sell them on to brewers. It has an estate agents sign on the first floor, 'All Enquiries Edward Erdman'. The building is Grade II listed, number 1378356. Number 65 is a narrow three-storey building with attic. Above the ground-floor shop window is a sign for WINKELY AND SON PRINTERS AND STATIONERS. This was formerly 'Gregory, Practical and Economical Tailors' owned by Henry Gregory. The earliest known occupant of this building, John Slade (1773), was a grocer. Number 63 is a four-storey building, the shop on the ground floor a Rymans Stationers. The previous occupant was also a stationer, W. Straker. On the left of number 63, obscured by a parked van, is an entrance to a passageway, White Hart Yard formerly the site of the White Hart Inn. The White Hart was the badge of Richard II and the sign of this inn probably dated from his time. In 1450 the inn was the headquarters of Jack Cade, which is mentioned by Shakespeare in Henry VI, part II. The inn was owned by Humphrey Collet in 1555, and it was still in the possession of his family when it burnt down in 1676. In 1720 Strype described the new building as "one of the best Inns in Southwark." The White Hart was immortalised by Dickens in The Pickwick Papers as the place in which Sam Weller is first introduced to the reader. It was demolished in 1888. Number 61 is a four-storey building with a shop sign for SMITHS PATENT. Number 59 is a narrow three-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer window. Above the ground-floor shop front is a sign for BORO CAFE. The remaining buildings are narrow and are three or four storeys high with shop fronts.
Date of execution
1974
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_365_74_18333
London picture map location
Exact
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