Major Road, SE16

Major Road is actually quite a minor road near to Bermondsey station.

An old factory along Major Road, Bermondsey was eventually devoted to producing paint.

The area was later redeveloped.
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Already a short street, Major Road is even shorter than it had been prior to the Second World War as the area to the south was redeveloped.

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Tower Bridge Business Complex, S

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Roy Mathieson Southwark Added: 27 Jun 2024 16:25 GMT	St Saviours My great grandmother was born in Bowling Green Lane in 1848. The family moved from there to Earl Terrace, Bermondsey in 1849. I have never been able to locate Earl Terrace on maps. Reply
Buckhurst Street, E1 Added: 26 Jun 2024 13:10 GMT	Buckhurst Street, E1 Mt grandfather, Thomas Walton Ward had a musical instrument workshop in Buckhurst Street from 1934 until the street was bombed during the war. Grandfather was a partner in the musical instrument firm of R.J. Ward and Sons of Liverpool. He died in 1945 and is buried in a common grave at Abney Park Cemetery. Reply
Mike Dowling Undercliff Road, SE13 Added: 15 Jun 2024 15:51 GMT	Family ties (1936 - 1963) The Dowling family lived at number 13 Undercliffe Road for Nearly 26 years. Next door was the Harris family Reply
Evie Helen Erith Added: 13 Jun 2024 00:03 GMT	Vickers Road The road ’Vickers Road’ is numbered rather differently to other roads in the area as it was originally built as housing for the "Vickers" arms factory in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Most of the houses still retain the original 19th century tiling and drainage outside of the front doors. Reply
Paul Harris Ellen Place, E1 Added: 12 Jun 2024 12:54 GMT	Ellen Place, E1 My mother’s father and his family lived at 31 Ellen Place London E1 have a copy of the 1911 census showing this Reply
Wedlake Street, W10 Added: 10 Jun 2024 19:31 GMT	Toll gate Close Did anyone live at Toll Gate Close, which was built in the area where the baths had been? Reply
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Thames Tunnel TUM image id: 1554042170 Licence: CC BY 2.0	One of the side roads leading from The Highway to Pennington Street. Possibly Artichoke Hill which is now much wider with new buildings on both sides. TUM image id: 1556882495 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Bridge House, George Row, Bermondsey (1926) TUM image id: 1557151298 Licence:	Folly Ditch, Jacob’s Island in the 19th century. Jacob’s Island was a notorious Bermondsey slum, cleared in the 1860s. Credit: Old and New London (published 1873) TUM image id: 1644241219 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Turk’s Head, Wapping High Street (1890) Credit: The Art Journal TUM image id: 1623746740 Licence:
Slipper’s Place, Rotherhithe (1958) Situated between Southwark Park and Southwark Park Road, this terrace was built c1850 on ground particularly unsuited to building, as the area had previously been a series of ditches and islands that fed into a mill stream. The site was cleared and new flats erected shortly after this photograph was taken. TUM image id: 1661077092 Licence:	Enid Street, SE16 looking from Rouel Road (1938) The houses had railway arches just outside their back doors. The original Lion pub can just be seen on the right corner and at the far end on the same side was The Windsor Castle. Both pubs survived the pre and post war slum clearance of the houses by Bermondsey Borough Council. The Lion was replaced in 1961 on the corner of Spa Road but The Windsor was demolished c.1965 and never rebuilt. The same view nowadays would include high modern flats to the left. TUM image id: 1634653197 Licence:	Jamaica Road (1900s) Despite being a road of eighteenth century origin, the western end of Jamaica Road, Bermondsey only dates from the 1960s. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1644251261 Licence:	Tram travelling along Jamaica Road (1912) This section of Jamaica Road was completely swept away when the road was realigned during the 1960s. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1644250563 Licence:	Mill Street, SE1 (1987) TUM image id: 1682593586 Licence:
Old Jamaica Road, SE16 (2012) Part of the Bermondsey Spa development, the curved building in this view includes a health centre. Bermondsey Spa is a major housing development in the area between the London-Greenwich Railway line and Jamaica Road, in the early years of the 21st century. The terraced housing that occupied most of the site was cleared by the 1950s. Credit: Geograph/Stephen Craven TUM image id: 1644272322 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Parker’s Row, SE1 on 19 May 1956 Credit: Serge Lansac/Picture Post/Hulton Archive TUM image id: 1644255838 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Spa Road station (c.1900) Spa Road station was one of the first of London’s railway stations, built by the London & Greenwich Railway (later the South Eastern and Chatham railway) in 1836 TUM image id: 1606839667 Licence:	The "Ha’penny Bumper" (tram) pictured on St James’s Road, SE1 Old London postcard TUM image id: 1620662351 Licence:	Wilson Grove, SE16 Wilson Grove includes a mini ’garden city’ with houses built in 1928 by Culpin & Bowers. Credit: Geograph/Stephen Richards TUM image id: 1644276510 Licence: