Building    From 1895  To 1948

Rotherhithe Old Town Hall

 Built in 1895 by the architects Murray and Foster.  The caryatides can be seen in the image either side of the entrance at the right.

In 1905 Rotherhithe merged with Bermondsey and St Olave and the new Bermondsey Borough Council used Bermondsey Town Hall. The old Rotherhithe Town Hall became a library and a museum. It was badly damaged in WW2 being hit on six different occasions. Our date of demolition is a guess.

The site is now, 2019, occupied by the Mayflower Tenants Association Hall, a much less imposing building.

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Rotherhithe Old Town Hall

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Sir William Constable

Sir William Constable

From Yorkshire. MP for Scarborough and then Knaresborough. Colonel of a regiment of foot in Cromwell's Parliamentary army, governor of Gloucester and one of the signatories to the death warrant of ...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
H. T. Ashby, Councillor

H. T. Ashby, Councillor

Chairman of the Education and Public Libraries Committee of St Pancras in 1906

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir Christopher Leaver, GBE DMus

Sir Christopher Leaver, GBE DMus

Lord Mayor in 1981-2.   Alderman on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.  A guest on Desert Island Discs in 1982 - at the picture source you can listen to his choices.

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Sir Herbert Jessel

Sir Herbert Jessel

Colonel Herbert Merton Jessel, 1st Baron Jessel, British soldier and Liberal Unionist, later Conservative politician. A member of the Westminster City Council, he served as the third Mayor of Westm...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
H. Lawrence

H. Lawrence

Director of the Brilliant Sign Company in 1938.

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Queen Victoria statue on Caxton Hall

Queen Victoria statue on Caxton Hall

SW1, Caxton Street, 10, Caxton Hall

The foundation stone is low down at the right hand side of the building. Above each of the two statues is a bust, both of the Greek god v...

1 subject commemorated
William Charles Holland King

William Charles Holland King

W. C. H. King was a sculptor. He was born in Cheltenham in 1884 and died in 1973. He was apprenticed to a firm of architectural sculptors at the age of 16 where he engaged in training for wood carv...

Person, Sculpture

2 memorials
Howard de Walden Estates Ltd

Howard de Walden Estates Ltd

Wikipedia has a very useful map showing "Estate (freehold) ownership of land in Central London as of 2023". The Howard de Walden Estate is shown in light red.

Group, Other

2 memorials
Croydon atmospheric railway

Croydon atmospheric railway

An experiment by the London and Croydon Railway. Pumping stations were built which created a vacuum in a pipe laid between the rails. Each carriage had a piston that entered a slot in the tube, sea...

Place, Transport

2 memorials
Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 03

Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 03

N16, Leswin Road, 41

Above the entrance at the left: "1883". above the two large windows: "Wesleyan Schools". Now, 2021, residential. The plaques, which we h...

1 subject commemorated