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Kinburn Street, LONDON, SE16 6DN

An example of adapting old structures to new uses - a disused gasometer now hosts mobile phone masts.

The estate consists of three blocks: Beech House (shown) in Canon Beck Road, Larch House in Swan Road and Pine House in Albion Street. Built in 1953 over Ainsty Street of which only about 15 yards remains. See image of Image re definition.

Off Brunel Road and about 75 yards west of Canon Beck Road and originally called York Street, stretching from the boundary fence of Surrey Docks to about 100 yards north of Brunel Road. At the bottom is the rear of Pine House to the right of which (out of view) can be found Larch House - to the left (again out of view) can be found Beech House. All three form the Ainsty Estate. "Ainsty" is an old name for an area close to the City of York.

The owners of this house have made quite an effort to decorate their house for the Queens Diamond Jubilee.

Above Rotherhithe Tunnel. A plaque records that it was "constructed between 1904 and 1908 by the engineer Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice".

This stood from 1867 to 1904 on the east corner at the junction with Forsythe Street, which today is in Brunel Road and just west of Kinburn Street i.e. where the two wheelie bins are outside numbers 32 and 34. I assume the pub was demolished as it was about that time that the immediate area changed by extending Brunel Road to the east. I do not know of any 'Edinburgh' connection but half a mile to the east is now an Edinburgh Court.

Off Rotherhithe Street between Canon Beck Road and the smaller section of Brunel Road, therefore about where the dwellings shown now stand. Filled in about the early 1960s and originally called Wintershill Street, later changing to Hanover Street but for many years known by the locals as Hanover Bay. This dates back to the mid 1700s, through to the mid 1800s, when foreign seamen made the street world-infamous as a place where "slit throats hung out". See Image for additional information.

On the corner of Canon Beck Road & Albion Road. Not sure what was going to happen to this pub, there were workmen inside the building, but I didn't enquire if it was to remain as a pub or not.

Not sure at the time the pub was actually open, but in any case at the time of writing (2016) it does appear to have closed and been turned into an art gallery. Glazed brick ground floor and adverts for Watney Combe Reid (1898), Watney's ales, Reid's stout and Combe's brown ale survive(d). Above the main sign is some corbelling.

Situated at the junction with Brunel Road and first recorded in 1800. In 1907 the Rev Beck wrote in his book about Rotherhithe "Then as befits a waterside parish, we have the names of famous ships eg 'Noahs Ark' : 'Ship Argo' : 'Old Ship York' : 'Swallow Galley' not to mention 'Jolly Sailor' : 'Jolly Caulkers' and the 'Battle of the Nile' and many another, far too many for the needs of the parishioners."