The Whitesmiths Arms and ARC nursery
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Whitesmiths Arms and ARC nursery by Stephen Craven as part of the Geograph project.
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The Whitesmiths Arms and ARC nursery
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 2 Mar 2010
A whitesmith is a person who works with light-coloured metals such as tin, and there was indeed a tin industry in the Bermondsey area at one time. The building to the right is the ARC nursery, run by Charterhouse - see Image
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Image Location
Latitude
51.501827
Longitude
-0.088963