Fern Walk, SE16

A street within the SE16 postcode

Fete at Bermondsey �’ 1569

Credit: Joris Hoefnagel (1542 – 1601)

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Parkers Row, SE1 Added: 9 Jan 2025 18:51 GMT	Parkers Row, SE1 My great great grandmother, and her soon to be husband, lived in Parker’s Row before their marriage in St James in June 1839. Thier names were - Jane Elizabeth Turner and Charles Frederick Dean. She was a hat trimmer and he was a tailor. Reply
Lindsay Trott Lockside, E14 Added: 1 Jan 2025 17:55 GMT	Lockside not on 1939 Register I have the Denby family living in Lockside in 1938 but it does not appear on the 1939 Register. Reply
Janelle Robbins Blossom Place, E1 Added: 27 Dec 2024 18:47 GMT	Harriet Robbins Please get in touch re Harriet Robbins Reply
Dave Hinves Bacon Street, E1 Added: 27 Nov 2024 03:55 GMT	he was a School Teacher Henry sailed from Graves End 1849 on ’The Woodbridge’ arrived South Australia 1850. In 1858 he married Julia Ann Walsh at Burra, South Australia, they had 3 children, and 36 grand children. Died 24 June 1896 at Wilmington, South Australia. He is my 1st cousin 3x removed. Reply
Kevin Pont St George’s Square, SW1V Added: 23 Nov 2024 17:03 GMT	St Georges Square This is rather lovely and well worth a visit! Reply
Simon Chapman Blossom Place, E1 Added: 22 Nov 2024 17:47 GMT	Blossom Place My Great Great Grandmother, Harriett Robbins lived in 2 Blossom Place in 1865 before marrying my Great Great Grandfather. They moved to 23 Spitall Square. Reply
Mark G Skidmore Street, E1 Added: 26 Oct 2024 21:54 GMT	Skidmore Street, E1 Skidmore Street was located where present day Ernest Street and Solebay Street now stand. They are both located above Shandy Street and Commodore Street. Reply
Alan Russell Cheshire Street, E1 Added: 26 Oct 2024 14:36 GMT	Cheshire Street, London E2 - 1969 Cheshire Street, London E2 - 1969 Reply

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The Rennie Estate, Rotherhithe (2009) Credit: Wiki Commons/Chris Lordan TUM image id: 1653948243 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Tustin Estate block, Peckham (2021) As cladding was updated on the Tustin Estate, a distinctive new colour combination - rockpanel chameleon - was used Credit: Tustin Estate Residents TUM image id: 1636634229 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:	A 2015 comparison between the cheapest and most expensive properties upon the 1930s London Monopoly board showed that the difference had lessened dramatically Credit: Ellie Flynn TUM image id: 1608830457 Licence:	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:	Pearce & Duff blancmange factory After starting out as a cottage industry, the blancmange manufacturers Pearce & Duff moved to Rouel Road; SE16 in 1890, to the site of a glue factory - Young & Co. The Pearce & Duff factory closed after a fire in the 1960s. Credit: Lambeth Archives TUM image id: 1606837018 Licence:	Mr Plumb’s shop, 57 Green Hundred Road, Peckham (1923) Credit: Daily Herald TUM image id: 1695901864 Licence:	Storks Road, SE16, looking north from the junction with Webster Road (1935) Bermondsey Borough Council had a committee - the Beautification Committee - which undertook programmes of tree planting on the area’s streets. It planted many thousands of trees, mainly poplar, as seen here. Credit: Ideal Homes TUM image id: 1644274964 Licence:
Delivery trailers at Peek Frean’s biscuit factory (1961) The delivery yard at the Bermondsey bakery showing trailers and British Railways vans and tractor units taking the famous biscuits off to be distributed by train. The building proudly proclaims the years in existence - 1857 to 1961 at that point. Credit: Peek Frean TUM image id: 1686923780 Licence:

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The Rennie Estate, Rotherhithe (2009)
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A 2015 comparison between the cheapest and most expensive properties upon the 1930s London Monopoly board showed that the difference had lessened dramatically
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The "Ha’penny Bumper" (tram) pictured on St James’s Road, SE1
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Mr Plumb’s shop, 57 Green Hundred Road, Peckham (1923)
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