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Burgess Park being created (1973) Credit: Greater London Council TUM image id: 1651159167 Licence:	Block on the Aylwin Estate Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1680622838 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:	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:	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
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:	An old factory along Major Road, Bermondsey was eventually devoted to producing paint. The area was later redeveloped. TUM image id: 1644252077 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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:
Tommy Steele signing autographs in Frean Street, Bermondsey (1957) He was leaving to do the ’Six Five Special’ on TV. TUM image id: 1622669652 Licence:	Mr Plumb’s shop, 57 Green Hundred Road, Peckham (1923) Credit: Daily Herald TUM image id: 1695901864 Licence:	Bermondsey Abbey, located around the modern-day Bermondsey Square. Credit: Sir Walter Besant TUM image id: 1682594833 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: