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Medlar Street, LONDON, SE5 0JU

Looking towards the railway bridge from the junction with Camberwell New Road.

The pub dates from 1932 and was designed by the architect A E Sewell for the Truman's Brewery. It is made of brick with faience and inscribed tiling with text such as "Trumans Est'd 1666", "London Stout" and "Burton Ales". For a monarch who only spent seven years on the throne King William IV seems, for some reason, to have had disproportionately more public houses named after him than any other king. A listing of old pubs in Camberwell alone reveals two others. Perhaps it was something to do with his relative popularity with the general public.

A typical pub of the former Truman Hanbury Buxton Brewery. Probably built some time between the wars and possibly designed by A.E. Sewell. Apparently it closed in 2007.

The bridge carries the railway line between Loughborough Junction and Elephant and Castle stations over the road. Old Ordnance Survey maps show the road as being named Orchard Row, with the change to Medlar Street occurring between the 1896 and 1920 editions.

Carrying First Capital Connect services over Camberwell New Road.

An annexe to the bus depot stood on this site as recently as August 2015. For how it used to look see Image However, on my latest visit it had disappeared revealing the railway arches behind.

A noble terrace, probably c1830, of two-bay, three storey houses over basements. Arched ground floor windows set in recessed arches, and first-floor wrought-iron balconies. The group is unified by the first-floor sillband, and cornice and blocking course at the top. Grade II listed. The listing suggests some fronts have been rebuilt - the nearest two look likely candidates.

A plain but dignified early-C19th stock brick terrace of two-bay houses in three storeys plus basement. The ground-floor windows are round-arched, and the first-floor windows have cast-iron balconies. Grade II listed.

This shows the Camberwell New Road exit to the garage on the latter's Open Day - hence the two vintage buses parked on the forecourt. The building of the present garage was completed in 1954. It replaced Walworth tram depot which had stood on the same site between 1905 until the early 1950s. Until 1950 the tram depot had the more geographically accurate name 'Camberwell' but this was replaced by 'Walworth' to avoid confusion with Camberwell bus garage which stood (and still stands) on the opposite side of the road.