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Janeway Street, LONDON, SE16 4PS

This school was originally the Farncombe Street Board School completed in 1874 by the London School Board in the ecclesiastical Gothic Revival style popular in Victorian times. It is a Grade II Listed Building by virtue of this. The steeply pitched outer gable ends have stone quatrefoils with three light slits above, while the whole building is capped with a cupola containing the school bell, itself capped with a weather vane. Farncombe Street has disappeared off the map entirely but maybe one of the surrounding streets was renamed. Just how well a building like this serves today's school population is a matter of debate. This view was taken from Janeway Street.

Inter-war 'garden city' housing is, perhaps, an unexpected find in this inner-city district. These are some of the 'Salter Cottages', named after Ada Salter who was the first ever woman councillor in Britain in 1910, and was the inspiration behind this development as a replacement for the appalling slums that had previously occupied the area. They were built in 1928.

At 440 Southwark Park Road. Original was built in 1858 and this one about 1959 with the building of the Slippers Place Estate

Erected in 1998 as an exact replica of the original (melted down for scrap during the Second World War), which was one of a pair designed in 1861 by Captain Francis Fowke for the Royal Horticultural Society in South Kensington. That site is now occupied by the Royal Albert Hall, also designed by Capt Fowke. The pair were bought by the then London County Council, the other being erected in Peckham Rye Park. https://www.dorothearestorations.com/case-studies/congleton-bandstand

Erected in the north section of the park in 1884 being paid for by public subscriptions. Believed the first public memorial to a working man, Jabez West, who from 1875 was a leading member of the Bermondsey Temperance Movement.

Dedicated to the men of Bermondsey and Rotherhithe who died in WWI and later to those who died in WWII and subsequent conflicts. Unveiled 3-00pm Saturday 8th October 1921 with a great deal of the finances supplied by Peak Freans Ltd - biscuit manufacturers of Bermondsey. West Lane is / was the boundary between Bermondsey and Rotherhithe.

The estate is bounded by Bermondsey Wall East (previously Rotherhithe Street), West Lane and Paradise Street. Named after the Mill Pond that was once about 500 yards south of the estate off Southwark Park Road. In 1588 gravel was required for ballast in ships for the defence of the Thames against a possible Spanish invasion. A hole was dug, gravel excavated, hole filled with water = the pond. Over many years various buildings sprung up nearby but in 1902 the pond was filled in after being described as "that receptacle of abominations". The estate was built over Gillam Court, Donne Place and Wormald Place.

A mini-garden city, the houses built in 1928 by Culpin & Bowers. See also Image

One of several narrow sidestreets running through the estate beside Cherry Garden Pier.

Grade II listed.