View of Borough High Street
View of Borough High Street
Record No
116007
Title
View of Borough High Street
Description
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.
Date of execution
1974
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_365_74_18578
London picture map location
Exact
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