View of 21-59 Borough High Street, Southwark. Number 59 is a four-storey building with a shop sign for SMITHS PATENT, and a metal sign on the first-floor wall and in the glass above the side doorway which reads: MANGER & HENLEY HOP FACTORS who were trading from at least the early 1920s. Hop factors represented growers, selling hops to dealers who would in turn sell them on to brewers. Number 57 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. On the door an OPEN sign, and in the window a sign for Hot Pies. In front are traffic lights and a man carrying an umbrella is crossing the road. Number 55 is a late-seventeenth or early-eighteenth century narrow three-storey building. The shop on the ground floor is empty, but a sign hanging from the first floor advertises Woodbine cigarettes. In the 1920s the ground floor was occupied by Leslie John Henry, costumier. It is now a convenience store and is Grade II listed, number 1378353. Number 53 an early-eighteenth century four-storey building with mansard roof and dormer windows, with a mid-nineteenth century front, with wooden shutters on the shop front. An opticians sign hangs from the first floor. The ground floor is now a food outlet. From 1778 until 1840 various firms of indigo blue manufacturers were the occupants and in the 1950s it was occupied by Louis F. Petyt, hop factor. The building is Grade II listed, number 1378352. Number 51 is a four-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer windows, and a shop on the ground floor. In the second-floor windows is a sign for A. J. Pascoe, Chartered Accountants. The shop is now a cafe. Number 47 is a four-storey building with attics and ornate decoration on the window architraves, but with a derelict shop on the ground floor, which is now a cafe. An overhanging window on the first floor sits above a tall arch marking the entrance to Kings Head Yard, and the Kings Head public house with a sign: 'The Old Kings Head, Luncheon. Courage' (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 Borough fire of 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 43, formerly a four-storey bank building, has a shop sign on the ground floor for 'Lewis Taylor', a butchers. On the first-floor windows, signs for 'Dental Surgeon'. Number 41 a narrow four-storey building, on the ground floor the 'Granada Restaurant', which is now a pharmacy. Number 31 is a narrow four-storey building with a sign: Guys Coffee House, named after the hospital at the rear of the building. Numbers 31 to 37 were demolished and the site is now an entrance to London Bridge Underground Station with offices above. Number 25-29, on the corner of St Thomas Street, is a 1960s four-storey bank building, built on a site of buildings damaged by bombing in World War II. It remains a Barclay's Bank. On the opposite corner, number 21 is a three-storey corner building with mansard roof and dormer windows. On the ground floor is a shoe repairers, and a first-floor sign advertises 'Burton Bureau for Office Staff, Temporary Staff Urgently Required'. The whole building is now offices.