Cadbury Way, SE16

Cadbury Way is a road in the SE16 postcode area

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

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

Bermondsey The name Bermondsey first appears in a letter from Pope Constantine during the 8th century.

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NEARBY STREETS

Abbey Gardens, SE1 Abbey Gardens is a road in the SE1 postcode area (Bermondsey)

Abbey Gardens, SE1

Abbey Gardens, SE16 Abbey Gardens is a road in the SE16 postcode area (Bermondsey)

Abbey Gardens, SE16

Abbey Street, SE1 Abbey Street takes its name from Bermondsey Abbey which was situated between Bermondsey Square, Grange Walk and Long Walk. (Bermondsey)

Abbey Street, SE1

Alexis Street, SE16 Alexis Street is one of the streets of London in the SE16 postal area (Bermondsey)

Alexis Street, SE16

Alma Grove, SE1 Alma Grove was formerly Alma Road, and before that Tenter Ground Lane (Bermondsey)

Alma Grove, SE1

Alscot Road, SE1 Alscot Road runs around Bermondsey Spa Gardens (Bermondsey)

Alscot Road, SE1

Alscot Way, SE1 Alscot Way is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area (Bermondsey)

Alscot Way, SE1

Amina Way, SE16 A street within the SE16 postcode (Bermondsey)

Amina Way, SE16

Amisha Court, SE1 Amisha Court is a block on Grange Road (Bermondsey)

Amisha Court, SE1

Arabella Street, SE16 Arabella Street runs off of Old Jamaica Road (Bermondsey)

Arabella Street, SE16

Artesian Building, SE1 Artesian Building is a block on Alscot Road (Bermondsey)

Artesian Building, SE1

Arts Lane, SE16 A street within the SE16 postcode (Bermondsey)

Arts Lane, SE16

Attilburgh House, SE1 Attilburgh House is a block on Abbey Street (Bermondsey)

Attilburgh House, SE1

Aulay House, SE16 Aulay House is a block on Spa Road (Bermondsey)

Aulay House, SE16

Bacon Grove, SE1 Bacon Grove is a road in the SE1 postcode area (Bermondsey)

Bacon Grove, SE1

Bakery Street, SE1 A street within the SE16 postcode (Bermondsey)

Bakery Street, SE1

Bala Place, SE16 Frederick Place - later Bala Place - first appears on the 1860s map (Bermondsey)

Bala Place, SE16

Balaclava Road, SE1 Balaclava Road’s name records the date of the development with the military victories of the Crimean War still fresh at that time (Bermondsey)

Bridge House, George Row, Bermondsey (1926) TUM image id: 1557151298 Licence:	Block on the Aylwin Estate Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1680622838 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:	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
Riley Road School Credit: Southwark Heritage TUM image id: 1728042911 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:	Druid Street bridge at Tanner Street. Still from the movie ’The Boy And the Bridge’ (1959) Credit: Richard Miller TUM image id: 1728042601 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Tooley Street fire of 1861 Credit: Unknown artist TUM image id: 1695394084 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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