View of 213-223 Borough High Street, Southwark. Number 213 is The Crown public house, a four-storey building with a crown on the roof pediment between balustrades. Originally the George Distillery public house, its earliest recorded landlord was Thomas Fleming in 1817. The facade of the building has been maintained and it is now offices. Number 215-219 form a four-storey building with shop fronts on the ground floor, all belonging to WILLIAM BARKER, advertising MANTLES, COSTUMES MILLINERY. This was a Mourning Warehouse which sold goods for funerals and the elaborate mourning of the Victorian era. These included dark clothing and fabric which might be required for years of wear after a death. A sign above reads: NEW AND ENLARGED PREMISES NEXT TO ST GEORGE'S CHURCH, with a drawing of the church; and a sign on number 219 reads: W.BARKER TEMPORARY PREMISES DURING REFURBISHMENT. Well-dressed women are looking in the windows. Number 215 was occupied by cheesemongers during the first half of the nineteenth century, of whom the last were the firm of Purdue and Twiddy. At number, 221 ROBERTSONS PAWNBROKER occupies a four-storey building with mansard roof, dormer windows and decorative swags above the third-floor windows. A frieze above the second floor showing 'Established in the reign of King George III 1730' with the pawnbrokers sign of three golden balls hanging above. Above the shop window is a sign for: SILVERSMITHS AND JEWELLERS Established 1730 DEALERS IN DIAMONDS AND PRECIOUS STONES. Above the first-floor window, a sign for: ADVANCES TO ANY AMOUNT OF DIAMONDS, JEWELLERY, ANCIENT PLATE, WORKS OF ART, TRADE STOCKS, PIANOS and or PURCHASED FOR CASH. SPECIAL RATES OF INTEREST FOR LOANS OF £5 AND UPWARDS. A man and a woman are bending down to look at items in the well-stocked windows. In the street is a handcart stacked with baskets. These buildings were demolished to change the road layout around St George's Church in 1903.