View of Borough High Street, Southwark, looking north. Borough High Street is one of the oldest streets in London being the main thoroughfare from London Bridge to Kent since antiquity. At number 32-34, Westminster Bank is 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, and is now a restaurant. This 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, the St Saviours War Memorial, 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. On the right is a single-storey shop, REFRIDGERATION, DOMESTIC AND COMMERCIAL APPLIANCES, built on the site of a building destroyed by bombing in World War II. This has been rebuilt as a four-storey building. The passageway to the side is Queens Head Yard, site of the galleried Queens Head Inn. Originally known as the Cross Keys or Crowned Keys, it was possibly renamed in compliment to Queen Elizabeth I. In the fifteenth century, it was the property of the Poynings family. In 1635 John Harvard inherited a lease of the Queen's Head Inn from his mother Katherine, just before he sailed for Massachusetts and bequeathed most of his estate, including hundreds of books, to the college now known as Harvard University. The last landlord was George Batcock, who, in 1881, lived there with his wife, two daughters, two sons, daughter-in-law, granddaughter and two lodgers. The building was demolished in 1888. Next to the passageway, number 103 is an early nineteenth-century four-storey building with a bookshop on the ground floor. It is now offices and is Grade II listed, number 1378361. Number 101 is an early eighteenth-century three-storey building with mansard roof and dormer windows, with a shop on the ground floor; The Boot and Flogger Wine Merchants. It has a 'To Let' sign from Field and Sons Estate Agents. It is now offices and is Grade II listed, number 1378360. Numerous narrow building with shop fronts lead north towards the railway viaduct crossing Borough HIgh Street. On the left, number 60 is a four-storey building with a frieze above the third floor and an arched doorway on the ground floor. Number 58 is a narrow four-storey building, built in the early-nineteenth century and previously occupied by 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, and plaster decoration above the first-floor window. In 1910 it was the offices of the Royal Insurance Company and by 1921, 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. A sign hanging from the first floor has sun faces looking in both directions along the road as the building had formerly been the offices of the Sun Fire and Life Company. This is now an estate agents and the building is Grade II listed, number 1428936. Number 50 is an early-eighteenth century three-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer window. This was occupied by hop merchants. The building is Grade II listed, number 1378349. An arched carriageway leads to a timber-framed two-storey building reputed to be built in 1542; originally The Goat Inn public house, 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. Parked in the street is a lorry with AYGEE on the tailgate; they provided services to commercial companies. A bus, cars, cyclists and many pedestrians are visible.
