View of Borough High Street, Southwark. Borough High Street is one of the oldest streets in London being the main thoroughfare from London Bridge to Kent since antiquity. Number 32-34 is occupied by Westminster Bank; a four-storey rectangular building with attics, and ornate decoration around the attic window. Built in 1862-63 by Frederic Chancellor for the London and County Bank in an Italian Palazzo style, it is Grade II listed, number 1378346. It was built on the site of an old prison (or compter) and court house that itself had been built on the site of the twelfth-century St Margaret's church. In front of the bank, St Saviours War Memorial which was unveiled in 1922. Costing £4000, it was paid for by public subscription following a competition organised by the local war memorial committee. The winning design was by the sculptor Philip Lindsey Clark who served on the Western Front in World War I. The bronze figure, according to the sculptor, was intended to “express the same dogged determination and unconquerable spirit displayed by all branches of our forces on land, on the seas, and in the air”. It is Grade II* listed, number 1378368. To the left, number 58 is a narrow four-storey building, with a shop sign for W. R. Miller & Sons, solicitors. Built in the early-nineteenth century, the building had previously been Drewitt and Mummery undertakers. It is now offices and is Grade II listed, number 1378354. Number 56 is a narrow four-storey building with a Dutch-style gable, a flagpole and plaster decoration above the first-floor window. In 1910 it was the offices of the Royal Insurance Company; by 1921 it was occupied by the Tokyo Trading Company, export merchants. Number 54 is an early-eighteenth century three-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer window. On the dormer window and above the shop window is a sign: FIELD & Son , Estate Agents and Surveyors. On the second floor is 'Sun Fire Mark'. Starting after the Great Fire of London in 1666, these marks indicated the company with which the building was insured. Each company had its own fire brigade, but in this case the building had formerly been the offices of the Sun Fire and Life Company. A sign hanging from the first floor has sun faces looking in both directions along the road. This is now an estate agents and the building is Grade II listed, number 1428936. Number 50 an early-eighteenth century three-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer window. Above the shop window are signs for PIKE SONS & Co and TABRUM AND SON, both hop merchants. The building is Grade II listed, number 1378349. A sign for CALVERTS BUILDING above an arched carriageway leads to a timber-framed two-storey building reputed to be built in 1542; originally The Goat Inn public house and later called The Brew House. Calvert's Buildings takes its name from Felix Calvert, brewer, who occupied the site from 1786 to 1794. The building is Grade II listed, number 1378350. Numbers 40 -50 form part of an eighteenth-century terrace. Numbers 44-48 are narrow four-storey buildings that have been combined as one, with a sign for ROYAL INSURANCE GROUP, DELTA HOUSE. It is now an estate agents. Number 42 a three-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer window, and a sign for EAGLE STAR INSURANCE. In 1843 this building was occupied by Eagleton and Glover, Tailors; and is now an estate agents. A van and two cars, one a Hillman, are in the road outside.
