View of 17-20 Borough Road, Southwark, on the corner with Milcote Street (formerly Warwick Street). A three-storey terrace with shop fronts on the ground floor. Number 17 with a shop sign and awning advertising ACCUMULATORS CHARGED ON THE PREMISES, LOAN 1d PER DAY, RADIO SERVICE AGENT. On the side of the building, advertisements include ones for REIDS STOUT, ANDREWS LIVER SALTS, CAMP COFFEE. Number 18 is a grocers with the proprietor standing in the door wearing a white apron, and two women outside looking at the camera. Advertisements on the upper floors are for BOVRIL, LYONS TEA COFFEE AND CHICORY EXTRACT and COCOA, NOSEGAY (tobacco). On the shop front are advertisements for R.WHITES GINGER BEER AND LEMONADE, PLAYERS and CRAVEN (cigarettes). Number 19 has a shop sign for THE POLY FRUITERER and GREENGROCER, named after the nearby Borough Polytechnic (now London South Bank University). Outside, two handcarts are on the pavement. Number 20 has a sign above the shop front for J. HOBBS, with a woman looking out of a first-floor window. In 1911 this was occupied by John Hobbs, Barrow Maker, his wife Johanna, his son a labourer, and daughter a furrier. Milcote Street has a three-storey terrace on the east side with a handcart in the street, and an engineering works on the west. These buildings were demolished and the site is now an open green space on the corner with Milcote Street.