View of 47-57 Borough High Street, Southwark. Number 47 is a four-storey building with attics and ornate decoration on the window architraves, with BEADLES WINE BAR on the ground floor. 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. 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 51 is a four-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer windows, with a branch of the Abbey National Building Society on the ground floor. The shop is now a cafe. Number 53 is an early-eighteenth century three-storey building, with a mid-nineteenth century front. A branch of the Woolwich Equitable Building Society. 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 ground floor is now a food outlet, and the building is Grade II listed, number 1378352. Number 55 is a late-seventeenth or early-eighteenth century narrow three-storey building with mansard roof and dormer windows. Occupying the ground floor is the OK Staff Agency with advertisements in the windows for Temp Audio and Copy Typists, and Temp Clerks. 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.