View of 151-161 Borough High Street, Southwark. Number 151 is an early-nineteenth century four-storey building on the corner with Newcomen Street. On the ground floor, a timber merchants. In the early-twentieth century, this building, and those adjoining in Newcomen Street, were the Turner Steam Bread Manufactory. The building is Grade II listed, number 1378364, and the shop is currently a barbers. Originally Axe Yard, in 1879, Newcomen Street was renamed in honour of a seventeenth-century resident, Mrs Elizabeth Newcomen. At her death in 1674, she owned property in Borough High Street, a house and tenement near Axe Yard and a lodging house called the 'Bottle'. She left her property in trust for ‘the clothing of poor boys and girls with a suit of linen and woollen once a year...and for teaching them to read and write and cast accounts’. The original early-nineteenth century buildings at numbers 153-159 were demolished in the mid-twentieth century and replaced with two-storey buildings with shops on the ground floor. Across the first floor a sign reads LANGLEY LONDON Ltd. Originally set up as “Merchant Shippers” in 1920 by Frederick Algernon Langley, later the business diversified into the importation of clay roof tiles, industrial paviours, ceramic wall and floor tiles. This part of the business was sold but it continues to trade as Business Brokers. The shops below: number 53 an Ophthalmic Optician, number 155 Manor Laundry and Dry Cleaning, numbers 157-159 The Time Recorder and Maintenance Company Ltd. These building have been demolished and the site is currently vacant. Number 161, a five-storey building with a balustraded balcony on the top floor, and a shop on the ground floor with the sign THE REDMAN MILL Co Ltd, RAYON MAUFACTURERS.