Buildings in Upper Green Street
Buildings in Upper Green Street
Record No
116348
Title
Buildings in Upper Green Street
Description
Looking west across Upper Green Street (now the southern section of Rushworth Street), Southwark, from behind wooden boundary fencing that surrounds the site of demolished houses on the east side of the street. A building that before closure had been James Shopland's chandler's shop stands at 1 Upper Green Street. The shop windows are covered with wooden security shutters, and the building bears a stencilled paint sign identifying it as part of Lot 6 in a property sale. The first-floor windows are missing and the voids boarded up. A small wooden door adjacent to the shop entrance gave access to an arched passage leading to the very small rear yard. A high parapet conceals the pitched roof. A white cross painted on the building front delineates the extent of the sale lot. The rear and part of the east side elevation of the General Abercrombie public house at 52 Friar Street (94 Webber Street from 1938) can be seen, with signage at roof level proclaiming the pub's name and promoting the 'entire' (a type of beer, as distinct from bitter, porter, etc) produced by local brewer and the owner of the pub: Barclay, Perkins & Co. The high wall to the right of the shop protects the pub's rear yard, formerly the site of an outbuilding. The rear of three houses on the east side of Bean Street is partly obscured in the background. Lot 6 of the auction comprised the entire block of terraced houses bounded by Upper Green Street, King James Street, Bean Street, and Friar Street; but excluded the General Abercrombie which was under separate ownership. A large site incorporating Lot 6 and one other remained vacant for some years after demolition and was then developed in the 1920s as Associated Newspapers' delivery van depot. The site was again redeveloped c2010 with an integrated range of four-, five-, and seven-storey blocks of flats. The General Abercrombie was renamed The Abbey in the 1990s and later converted to commercial premises on the ground floor and flats above, incorporating a four-storey residential block built c2010 in its back yard on the site of the previous outbuilding.
Date of execution
1907
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_377_4729
London picture map location
Exact
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