View of the redevelopment of 106-132 Borough High Street, Southwark. To the left, on the site of numbers 128-132, is a new structure being built on a vacant plot. A workman in a hard hat is on the first floor and a crane is visible behind. The constructors sign on the enclosing fence is for LAING. It is now a six-storey apartment block, Maple House, with a retail outlet on the ground floor. Numbers 124-126 form a three-storey building boarded up with corrugated iron with a sign on the front for HILDEN DEMOLITION ad CONSTRUCTION. This building was occupied in the 1920s by George Mence Smith, an Italian warehouseman. Number 122 is a three-storey building with bow windows on the first and second floors and occupied by The Red Cross public house, dating from at least the early-nineteenth century. In 1881 the landlord was Thomas Hill who lived with his wife Jane, his two sisters, and three barmen. A narrow passageway at the side led to Red Cross Place (now Gardens), which houses six cottages and gardens planned by Octavia Hill in 1887-1890 and built by Elijah Hoole as an 'open air sitting room for the tired inhabitants of Southwark'. The site of numbers 122-126 is now an office block, Bridgegate House. Number 118-120 form a four-storey building with a sign for FOCUS above the ground-floor shop front. In the 1920s this was occupied by A. Wilson & Co Ltd, boot and shoe factors. This building remains, although altered, and is now an apartment block. Numbers 106-116 are encased in scaffolding. The occupiers in the 1920s were; at number 106 Alfred White, tobacconist; numbers 108 and 114 Walter Fry, timber merchant; number 110 Coe & Co., oil and colour men; number 112 Joseph Holden, newsvendor. This site is now an office block and headquarters of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists.