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Comber Grove, LONDON, SE5 0LB

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.

Since the School is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1896 but not on the 1882 edition, its date of origin can be placed at around 1890. A curious change of circumstances has come about here. When the school was built at that time it was a latecomer to an already well-established residential community of terraced houses. Now it is the survivor amongst a sea of much more modern buildings such as the adjacent Image The road in front is Comber Grove but the old Ordnance Survey maps show it as Leipzig Road, certainly up to 1938, so presumably the school was not originally called Comber Grove.

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.

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.

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.

The tower blocks are Laird House (left) and Kevan House (right)

This is the frontage that abuts Medlar Street just east of the railway bridge. Behind the gates a blocked access to and from the garage can be seen. This saw little use in London Transport days but was used (probably as an exit) during the time (1990-97) the garage was operated by Londonlinks prior to its second period of closure. It was blocked off after 2004 by Travel London, the then owners of the garage, in order to allow the construction of an inspection pit just inside the building.