View of Borough High Street
View of Borough High Street
Record No
115991
Title
View of Borough High Street
Description
View of 101-115 Borough High Street, Southwark. Numbers 107 to 115 are two single-storey shops built on the site of buildings damaged by bombing in World War II. Numbers 113-115 is a hardware shop LIVETT FRAND and Son, and number 107-111 is REFRIDGERATION (BOROUGH) Ltd, Commercial and Domestic Appliances. Advertisements in the windows for Cold Rooms and Refrigeration Equipment, Cash and carry Prices. These have been replaced by a modern four-storey building with retail units on the ground floor. In the background is Guy's Tower designed by Watkins Gray. Now known as the Tower Wing, when built in 1974 it was the tallest hospital building in the world, standing at 148.65 metres with 34 floors. Between numbers 107 and 103 is a passageway called Queens Head Yard, site of the galleried Queens Head Inn. Originally known as the Cross Keys or Crowned Keys it was possibly renamed in compliment to Queen Elizabeth I. In the fifteenth century, it was the property of the Poynings family. John Harvard, a clergyman, inherited a lease of the Queen's Head Inn from his mother Katherine who died in 1635 just before he emigrated to Massachusetts and bequeathed most of his estate, including hundreds of books, to the college now known as Harvard University. The last landlord was George Batcock, who, in 1881, lived there with his wife, two daughters, two sons, daughter-in-law, granddaughter and two lodgers. The building was demolished in 1888. Next to the passageway, number 103 is an early-nineteenth century four-storey building with an employment agency on the ground floor. It is now offices and is Grade II listed, number 1378361. Number 101 encased in scaffolding, is an early-eighteenth century four-storey building with mansard roof and dormer windows. Formerly the Boot and Flogger wine merchants it is now offices and is Grade II listed, number 1378360.
Date of execution
1974
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_365_74_18346
London picture map location
Exact
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