View of 139-149 Borough High Street, Southwark. Left, number 139 is a single-storey building occupied by 'London Bridge China and Gifts Wholesale and Retail'. Numbers 141 and 143 are four-storey buildings; number 141 with decorative panels with swags on the top floor. On the ground floor, shop fronts with windows displaying men's and women's clothing. To the right, a newspaper hoarding with the headline 'Murray Ends Scanlon Strike'. In 1974 Hugh Scanlon was President of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, and Len Murray the leader of the Trades Union Congress. Later, both were elevated to the House of Lords. In 1921, number 137-141 were the Great Western Railway Goods depot and general receiving inquiry office. These building have been demolished and the site redeveloped as offices and retail outlets. Number 143-149 combined as one four-storey building in use as offices. In 1921 this was Brooke & Co., linen drapers, and remains as offices. In 2015, an archaeological team discovered a sealed-up World War II-era access tunnel which runs from Borough High Street down to the former City and South London Railway tunnels. Abandoned in 1900 when the alignment of the Northern line was changed, in 1939-40 the tunnels under Borough High Street were converted into an air raid shelter for up to 14,000 people. The access tunnels to the shelter, including the one at 143 Borough High Street, were sealed up with concrete plugs after the war.