The factory was located in nearby Westcott Street and later in Bermondsey Street and the building in Grange Walk was used as the company offices and also as a place for workers to stay in the attic rooms. The tide was low, the building work over and after some early morning rain, the weather was improving. The risks to these types of street and buildings are clear from the following text from the 1972 article: “As with the north bank, it was riverside villages that first grew in size and expanded in a linear form along the river. See also this post of another charity school across the river in Wapping. Loved your link to the old Angel through your father’s images. The Angel dates from the eighteen-thirties although it may include material from a seventeenth century building. This is a fascinating area. continue along Rotherhithe Street, towards Tower Bridge. Aged 24 years. The Angel is a wonderful spot to view Tower Bridge and the City. His pictures and research tell a great story. This Font Cover was placed here as a last tribute of love by her sorrowing parents.”. Jamaica Road is just outside the church of St. James, and the plaque tells not just a story of the parents grief, but how in the 19th century, people from across London, including the local streets of Bermondsey, were travelling the world. As a Passive Resister he has been to prison nine times.”. The King’s Stairs and Rotherhithe Stairs are both shown on the 1746 Rocque Map of London, with Rotherhithe Stairs were recorded as Redriff Stairs (one of the earlier names for Rotherhithe). What a beautifully constructed description of this place that weaves together perspectives through many lenses. Long before the NHS they promoted free medical treatment and education on how hygiene could improve health and prevent disease. Then there is London to the west of the city, which has a widely mixed population of all classes doing all kinds of work, and contains centres of all major shopping and entertainment industries, the university and many colleges, art schools, theatres, concert halls, museums, libraries, the publishing and book selling industry, hotels, restaurants, all of which has become the centre of an immense tourist invasion every summer, held together by a good, if overcrowded road and rail network, and predominantly inhabited by a prospering, fully employed population, despite large areas of slum streets. His Manor House was built on a low-lying island when much of this land was marsh. Great photo from 1948. I suspect that for some reason the brickwork on this single building has been cleaned. The beer and wine are standard meh Sam Smith's stuff and the food is straight out of a 1980s Little Chef (check out the picture), but the charm of The Angel is not in the drinking but in the experiencing. And an updated map showing the area today, with the four sites I will cover in this week’s post, sites 76 to 79. The Angel Pub. The author inherited a series of old photographs of London from his father and by tracing them, he discovers the changes in the city over a generation. We, ( My mum and my old mate who is freind of the land lady) enjoyed some fish and chips just s couple of months ago and will be calling in again shortly with my wife. New Deal For East London – Bermondsey To Rotherhithe, Jubilee Gardens and the World’s Longest Safety Poster, Fire, Blitz and Route 11 – How Two Historic City Walls Have Survived The Centuries, Pubs of the City of London, July 2020 – Part 3, Where the Victoria Line breaks through an Islington Square, A Roman Wall in a Car Park and a Pottery Kiln in Kensington, Two Bombed Churches – St Alban and St Mary, Pubs of the City of London, July 2020 – Part 2, Pubs of the City of London, July 2020 – Part 1, Curzon Square, Curzon Place And Seamore Place. They married in 1900 and lived in Bermondsey. The last substantially 18th century street – Mayflower Street – was demolished in the 1960s; and Rotherhithe Street has recently lost the remainder of its early 18th century riverside houses. I note that the lifebuoy ring was removed in the updated picture of the Angel. These posts are based on the 1972 Architects’ Journal article which was titled “New Deal for East London”, so I turned to the article to read their definition which I reproduce below: “London, like Gaul is divided into three parts. According to Old and New London, the “church was built on the site of an older edifice, which had stood for four hundred years, but which had become at length so ruinous that Parliament was applied to for permission to pull it down. It perches isolated on the river wall, opposite the remains of Edward III's palace (of which it used to be part, on a diagonally opposite site). The best things to do in London. This was a bonded tobacco warehouse built in the 1930s in place of a previous 1907 warehouse (which was probably in place of earlier warehouses). I have been meaning to take the same view for a couple of years, but my previous visits have either been when the tide has not been low enough or the building was covered in scaffolding. The views over the river are magnificent. One of which is the subject of this week’s post – The Angel Rotherhithe. It perches isolated on the river wall, opposite the remains of Edward III's palace (of which it used to be part, on a diagonally opposite site). I have only lightly scratched the surface in these two posts, but it was a really enjoyable walk which I thoroughly recommend.
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