The Shipwrights Arms

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The Shipwrights Arms
Tooley Street, Southwark
London, May 2023

“At the junction between Tooley Street and Bermondsey Street is a historic pub called ‘The Shipwright's Arms’, recalling one of the local industries. It has a large wall of tiles showing ships being built.” (Tooley Street, Wikipedia)

Bishop's Hall

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Bishop's Hall
Red Cross Garden
Redcross Way, Southwark
London, May 2023

“Adjacent to Redcross Cottages is the community hall, originally called Red Cross Hall, and now called Bishop's Hall, and in private ownership. In 1889 Hill and Hoole commissioned Walter Crane to decorate the interior with ten deeds of heroism in the daily life of ordinary people, of which three were executed and survive.” (Red Cross Garden, Wikipedia)

Mosaic roundel

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“The Sower” mosaic roundel by James Powell and Sons, 1896
Red Cross Garden
Redcross Way, Southwark
London, May 2023

“Two mosaics were donated by the Myatt's Fields philanthropist Julia Minet and installed by Hill in 1896. The mosaics were ‘The Sower’, by the glass-makers James Powell and Sons after a design by Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, and ‘The Good Shepherd’, by Antonio Salviati. ‘The Good Shepherd’ has since been lost, but ‘The Sower’ survives, having been restored first in 1956 and again in 2005. It is now mounted on a modern building, Octavia House (occupied by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine), which is built on the former children's play area.” (Red Cross Garden, Wikipedia)

Red Cross Garden

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Red Cross Garden
Redcross Way, Southwark
London, May 2023

“Red Cross Garden is a small park in Southwark, London. It is located on Redcross Way, and named after the street, although the name of the garden is spelt with two words while the street is spelt with one. It is in the London Borough of Southwark. The garden and the associated cottages designed by Elijah Hoole form an early example of one of Octavia Hill’s social housing schemes.” (Red Cross Garden, Wikipedia)

South Bank Tower

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South Bank Tower
Stamford Street
Southwark
London, September 2014

“Southbank Tower (formerly South Bank Tower King's Reach Tower until 2013) is a high-rise building in Stamford Street, Southwark, London. It was originally a thirty-storey structure 111 metres (364 ft) high and was completed in 1972, designed by the architect Richard Seifert and built by John Laing. In recent years, the tower has undergone extensive redevelopment and a height increase. The tower is similar in design to Tower 42, which was designed by the same architect.” (South Bank Tower, Wikipedia)

Roupell Street

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Nineteenth-century cottages
Roupell Street
Southwark
London, September 2014

“I first came across this beautiful street while a tube strike was in progress – disruption to my usual route to work meant that I had travelled on a National Rail service into Waterloo, and had then covered the rest of my journey to work on foot. Turning off the busy Waterloo Road into a maze of residential streets, following the people heading in the direction of the City, I found myself on Roupell Street and felt as though I had stepped back in time. Described by Time Out as ‘an impossibly handsome street of nineteenth-century workers' cottages’, Roupell Street was first developed in the 1820s. The land was owned by John Roupell, whose family lived in nearby Cross Street (now called Meymott Street). The Roupells were a wealthy family, whose money had been made in lead smelting and scrap metal. Clearly John Roupell saw an opportunity to add to his income by building properties on his land and renting them out to local people.” (Discovering the ‘impossibly handsome’ Roupell Street, Flickering Lamps)

Waterloo Meeting Rooms

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Waterloo Meeting Rooms
Boundary Row
Southwark
London, September 2014

The Black Friar

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“The Black Friar” by Edward Bainbridge Copnall, 1958
Pocock Street / Blackfriars Road
Southwark
London, September 2014

Green wall

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Green wall
Holiday Inn Express Southwark
Southwark Street
Southwark
London, September 2014

Christ Church

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Christ Church
Blackfriars Road
Southwark
London, September 2014

“Christ Church, Southwark, is a church of the Anglican denomination situated on the west side of Blackfriars Road, London. At the time of the foundation there was no bridge at Blackfriars and so no major road connecting the area to the south or to the City. The current church was built in 1958, following total destruction of the previous building in 1941, during the London Blitz. It has been Grade II listed since 2010.” (Christ Church, Wikipedia)

Upside down

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Upside down building by Alex Chinneck
Blackfriars Road
Southwark
London, September 2014

Fana

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“Fana” (Etruscan goddess of the forest) by Emily Young
NEO Bankside
Holland Street
Southbank, Southwark
London, September 2014

Stall with ads

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Stall with ads
Borough Market
Southwark Street, Southwark
London, September 2015

Orientation table

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Bnonze orientation table of More London
More London Place
South Bank, Southwark
London, September 2014

Statue of Minerva

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Statue of Minerva by Alan Collins, 1966
Montague Close, Southwark
London, January 2008

For a Cleaner Thames

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“Working together for a cleaner Thames”
Seen from the Queen's Walk
Southwark
London, January 2008

“River workers in 1937 would have been perplexed by the corporate-style sloganeering carried in the words ‘working together for a cleaner Thames’ that adorn the floating ‘rubbish muncher’ of 2008.” (The transformation of the Thames riverbank, Financial Times)

Borough Market Hall

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Market Hall by DLA Architects, 2013
Bedale Street / Borough High Street
Borough Market, Southwark
London, September 2016

“DLA have transformed a pocket of Southwark into a new city garden and gathering space for Borough Market through the refurbishment of The Market Hall. Borough Market was established in 1754 and is London's oldest food Market. With its roots based firmly in the local community, an Act of Parliament stated that Borough Market should remain ''an estate for the use and benefit of the local community forever''. The Market Hall strengthens this Act by promoting food education and sustainability, whilst engaging the local community. DLA have helped the Trustees of Borough Market achieve this through the development of the brief and a series of distinctive architectural interventions including a vertical herb garden, scented planter seating, a mobile olive orchard, hop planters, a demonstration kitchen and a CNC engineered timber cladding design which represents the Market through the four seasons. Located opposite London Bridge Station and the Shard, the Market Hall is a piece of urban design which for the first time in the Market's rich history stiches together the existing Market and Borough High Street, whilst providing a frontage where Market activities will be visible and education events promoted. Locals and visitors to Borough Market will now be greeted with an ever changing calendar of events and activities throughout the day and year. The flexible community hall will function as a public square, garden, education space and dining room.” (The Market Hall, Architecture.com)

The Goose Wing Entrance

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The Goose Wing Entrance, Cross Bones graveyard
Union Street, The Borough, Southwark
London, September 2016

“In John Constable's vision, The Goose is the spirit of Cross Bones, protecting her outcast children. Local artist-woodworker Arthur de Mowbray drew on this vision, and the Invisible Gardener's idea for ‘a cloister’, to create this stunning entrance structure, which symbolises The Goose protectively spreading her wing over visitors as they enter the garden. It serves both as a shelter and as a rainwater harvester; rain runs down through timber gutters into the pond. Carved into the beams, you can read one of the poems from The Southwark Mysteries - ‘Here lay your hearts, your flowers...’ - which is recited at all the vigils, as well as John's dedication to those buried at Crossbones. Arthur also created the timber seats built into the drystone wall beds, and our garden tool shed, known as The Clink, complete with a carving of a gargoyle of the Bishop of Winchester spitting water onto a goose's back. All the wood used in Arthur's creations was sustainably sourced personally by him.” (History, Crossbones)

Number 1 London Bridge

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Number 1 London Bridge by John S Bonnington Partnership, 1986
London Bridge Street, Southwark
London, September 2016

“John S. Bonnington Partnership designed the No. 1 London Bridge building on the south side of the London Bridge in London. It has a 13 story tower with another 10 story section clad in pink granite and stainless steel. The distinctive front of the building is cut out of the corner with a skylight cut out at the top. The office complex was completed in 1986.” (Number 1 London Bridge, Architecture Revived)

Cigarette Break

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Cigarette break outside Bankside 3
Southwark Street, Southwark
London, September 2016