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Dist:0.0km north<br/>At the time this display, held in August 1995, was the largest on the Thames since the 18th century display for which the Music for the Royal Fireworks was written.
©Christine Matthews
Dist:0.0km north<br/>Llewellyn Street, Bermondsey, London. Typical of many streets in this square.
©Brendan and Ruth McCartney
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Bermondsey Station, on Jamaica Road, was opened in 1999 as part of the Jubilee Line Extension.
©Stephen McKay
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©Stacey Harris
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©Stacey Harris
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Looking east along Jamaica Road, the A200, a main route into south-east London. The name is believed to have derived from Jamaica House which stood nearby until about 1860. The house is mentioned by Samuel Pepys in his diary in 1667, and was itself probably named after the newly-acquired colony.
©Stephen McKay
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Inter-war 'garden city' housing is, perhaps, an unexpected find in this inner-city district. These are some of the 'Salter Cottages', named after Ada Salter who was the first ever woman councillor in Britain in 1910, and was the inspiration behind this development as a replacement for the appalling slums that had previously occupied the area. They were built in 1928.
©Stephen McKay
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Photo taken near Bermondsey Underground Station, looking towards Rotherhithe. Canary Wharf is in the background.
©Danny Robinson
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Photo taken at the junction of St James's Road, looking towards Rotherhithe. Canary Wharf is in the background. Bermondsey Underground Station is on the right.
©Danny Robinson
Dist:0.2km north<br/>This drinking fountain is at the centre of a courtyard of recent housing. Not sure if it is newly installed but retro style, or a survival from an earlier age.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The sanctuary of the church has an arched ceiling with a large painting of the Ascension of Christ by John Wood (1844) as an altar piece. A full description and history of the painting is at http://www.stjamesbermondsey.org.uk/4790/10303.html
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The interior of [[970059]]. James Savage, the architect, modelled the church on that of Greek Temples with galleries round three sides and the organ in the west. John Betjeman considered St James's "the finest church built by the Waterloo Churches Commissioners".
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Quiet, leafy Marigold Street connects Jamaica Road with Bermondsey Wall East on the riverside. The junction ahead is with Pottery Street.
©Stephen McKay
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Looking west to Tower Bridge and St. Pauls Cathedral.
©David Lunn
Dist:0.3km north<br/>A rare survival at [[970059]] is the pair of bellows, one hand-operated and one foot-operated, on the wind supply to the 1829 organ [[970115]]. They were restored to working order in recent years and have been used on at least one occasion when the electric motor failed.
©Stephen Craven

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