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Rotherhithe Street and the old fire station in the distance (red ... last updated: 11/01/2008 at 13:56 created: 05/07/2005 You are in: London > Coast > Rotherhithe Street The BBC is not ...
Did your street make it unscathed through the ... The layer can be superimposed over modern London (or other historical maps) to see how the streetscape has changed with time.
A new map on the Layers of London site lets you compare suburban London in 1746 to the modern street map ... the University of London's Institute of Historical Research. It contains dozens ...
A Thames Tour of Rotherhithe ... London's famous Deal Porters - athletic men who unloaded, carried and stacked the timber. As you walk around the quays you will notice foreign street names, old ...
In the 1960s, London County Council bought the remaining houses on the row but the owners of 41 Rotherhithe Street, barge constructors Braithwaite & Dean, refused to sell. The company employed ...
Thanks to a cantilevered staircase by local firm Tate Harmer, members of the public will be granted access to one of London's best-kept pieces of engineering history. Rotherhithe shaft was ...