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Canon Beck Road, LONDON, SE16 7DF

This was a pub between 1852 and 1907 and thereafter a shop. It abutted Winchelsea House of the Swan Estate shown on the right. I remember it, 1960s, as a two storey building. I cannot answer my own query :- 2 storeys / abutting / window above mural. The pub protruded a little way past the bollard, as in the 1960s the road was very narrow. The shop disappeared in the early 1970s. Building in the centre is Rye House and in the background is the Adams Garden Estate.

Looking south-southeast.

Dodds Place was once at the east end and slightly north of Adam Street (now Brunel Road), between Canon Beck Road and Kinburn Street. The pub would have stood about the centre of the forecourt shown. It was first recorded in 1767 and destroyed by fire in 1827. In 1830 its licence was refused and it became 8 Dodds Place. It was also known as the 'Dial'.

A three-storeyed pub at the junction with Canon Beck Road, first recorded in 1805 and ceased trading about 1956. It sold 'Beasley's Ales & Stouts'.

It was at the junction with Rotherhithe Street from 1683 to 1813. I believe it was on the left i.e. where the car is parked on the driveway. This is based on a description I read - "on an island". Many years ago Swan Road forked around a building and even in the early 1960's an alley isolated a granary type building where the corner house is. Building on the right is Winchelsea House of the Swan Estate. Previously called 'Floating Dock' and the 'Two Knecked Swan' - both these names could be linked to an 'island'.

Image shows Brunel Road and on the left is the junction with Ainsty Street that originally cut across Brunel Road and terminated at Rotherhithe Street. At one of the right hand corners of the junction stood the pub. It was built in 1814 and demolished in the 1930's after having served a time as a cafe. It may be considered too close to the pub in the background (Adam & Eve at No 33) but years ago in Rotherhithe there were many pubs that were closer still.

Consists of five buildings :- Seaford House (Rotherhithe Street), Winchelsea House (Swan Road), Rye House (Kenning Street) to the right of the image, Hythe House (Railway Avenue) bulk of image and in between the four is Sandwich House. Area now covered by the estate once contained Cow Court, Longs Court and nearby was a Swan Alley (all 1746), Swan Street (1797) and Kenning Buildings together with a stone yard (1868).

More bronze statues along the Thames Path.

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