View of Borough High Street
View of Borough High Street
Record No
116057
Title
View of Borough High Street
Description
View of 89-99 Borough High Street, Southwark. Number 89 is a narrow four-storey building on the corner of Talbot Yard, with a sign over the door for JOSOLYNE AND YOUNG who were a firm of builders. This is now offices. Number 91 is a narrow four-storey eighteenth-century house with broken windows. The mid-Victorian shop front which is boarded up with padlocks on the door has a sign for R. J. HERBERT MENSWEAR, and above the shutters a sign for E. ROBERTS HOSIER and GLOVER. In the mid-eighteenth century this building was The Bell and Bear Inn. It was subsequently occupied by a toyman, a tallow chandler, an oilman, a carman and as "oyster rooms", and is now a dental surgery. It is Grade II listed, number 1378358. Numbers 93-95 are three-storey buildings with a mansard roof and dormer windows built in the early to mid-eighteenth century as a pair of houses. The shop front is late-nineteenth century with an off-centre door, decorative moulding around the door frame and wrought-iron decorations to the ground-floor window sills. During the late-eighteenth century, number 93 was a cheese merchants and number 95 a confectioners. Later a hop merchant's office, it is now offices and Grade II listed, number 1378359. Number 97 is a three-storey building with a mansard roof, dormer windows and a balustrade around the roof. The building is severely damaged by World War II bombing and the shop front is boarded up. On the first floor is a sign for STEVENS and Co., a chemist, and around the shop window a TRUSS SPECIALIST. Number 99 is a four-storey building with a sign for Fishing Tackle, however it is selling framed pictures. In 1921 this had been occupied by Miss Winifred Hilda White, Hairdresser. Numbers 97-99 were demolished and a modern office building is on the site with a bookmakers on the ground floor.
Date of execution
1943
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Notes
- Updated 2010 10 28
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_365_F1577
London picture map location
Exact
Subjects
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