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New apartments on Silwood Street
An apartment block, on the acute corner of Silwood Street (ahead) and Corbetts Lane (left), in the redevelopment of the Silwood estate - see
Image for the block that formerly stood here.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 16 Apr 2014
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Silwood Estate, Rotherhithe, London, SE16
It used to cover a very large area bounded by Rotherhithe New Road, Silwood Street, Reculver Road and Oldfield Grove. Part was in Rotherhithe and a small section in Lewisham. Image shows the now derelict Gillam House in Silwood Street named after Samuel Gillam (JP) who, in April 1764, sentenced the murderer William Corbett to death. Behind the flats is Corbetts Lane and to the left of the photographer is Corbetts Passage. The London Nautical School in Lambeth started in a school in Silwood Street, the Rotherhithe side of (site of the recently demolished Goldsworthy Gardens) Reculver Road. School evacuated to Sussex during WWII and on its return moved to Lambeth. Incidentally General Goldsworthy was Lord of the Manor of Rotherhithe from 1777 to 1801.
Image: © Chris Lordan
Taken: 12 Oct 2009
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Cycle path to Debnams Street
A sinuous brick-paved path links Corbetts Lane with Debnams Street.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 16 Apr 2014
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Trackside flats
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 8 May 2016
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St. Gertrude
An unusual church located on Debnams Road. The housing accommodation attached is presumably the vicarage. The church was built in 1902 and was designed by F.W.Tasker.
Image: © Martin Addison
Taken: 22 Oct 2010
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St Gertrude's Church, 1, Debnams Road, Rotherhithe, London, SE16
A Roman Catholic church built in 1902 and said to have been built to cater for the vast number of Irish labourers who came to the area to assist in the building of the railway on the nearby viaduct. That said, the viaduct was built or started about 1832ish.
Image: © Chris Lordan
Taken: 27 Oct 2009
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St Gertrude's Catholic church, Debnams Street
According to another contributor
Image, the church was built in 1902 and the style is certainly of that era.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 16 Apr 2014
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Flats in Millender Walk
Image: © David Martin
Taken: 10 Apr 2022
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Corbetts Passage, Rotherhithe, London, SE16
Off Rotherhithe New Road, opposite Raymouth Road and runs into Silwood Street. Many will know it's named after the Canadian murderer, William Corbett, who was hanged on 04-04-1764 for two murders in Cherry Garden Street, Bermondsey, SE1. His body was hung on a gibbet in Rotherhithe New Road (then Deptford Road). What may not be known is on the railway lines above, about 1839 the worlds first signal box was erected. Far end of the image can be seen Southwark Park British Rail Station (1902 to 1915).
Image: © Chris Lordan
Taken: 23 Sep 2009
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Bolina Road bridges (1)
Bolina Road is a narrow minor road, used mainly by commercial vehicles going to/from local industrial sites, that passes under five railway bridges, three of them shown on this picture. The lowest of them, in the distance on this photo, is disused (it carried the former Bricklayers Arms freight line). The others all lead towards London Bridge.
Update: Bolina Road was to be closed permanently from 18 January 2013 for construction of new railway lines as part of the Thameslink project.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 22 Oct 2008
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