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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	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:	Trafalgar Avenue (then Road) in 1925. The bridge on the left went over the Grand Surrey Canal and the Victory pub was on the corner of Trafalgar Avenue and Waite Street. TUM image id: 1509625819 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:	Wolseley Buildings, Wolseley Street, Bermondsey (1926) Tenements such as these were a common feature of inner south London in the late 19th and early 20th century. Typically they had been built by private landlords, some with a philanthropic inclination. TUM image id: 1625083809 Licence:	Hickman’s Folly. Bermondsey (1930s) Hickman’s Folly was a cul de sac which ran parallel and south of Wolseley Street and said to have been built on the site of a tannery. At one time it ran from Dockhead to George Row where it crossed the open Neckinger by a bridge. TUM image id: 1625932810 Licence: