From 2.35 to 3.17 the camera shows Bevington Street in Bermondsey and swivels round to Jamaica Road and the Gregorian pub on the junction of St James’s Road. The post-war clearances had already seen much of the area around Bevington Street demolished and the Dickens Estate extension started. Jamaica Road is also unrecognisable before its 1960’s re-routing, which shifted the road significantly north from this point westward.
A lot of Victorian rentier-owned property, badly maintained, was replaced by '60s and '70s system-built and poorly-designed/-assembled dwellings that became uninhabitable in next-to-no-time, leaving councils and ratepayers with millions of debt.
From 2.35 to 3.17 the camera shows Bevington Street in Bermondsey and swivels round to Jamaica Road and the Gregorian pub on the junction of St James’s Road.
The post-war clearances had already seen much of the area around Bevington Street demolished and the Dickens Estate extension started. Jamaica Road is also unrecognisable before its 1960’s re-routing, which shifted the road significantly north from this point westward.
A lot of Victorian rentier-owned property, badly maintained, was replaced by '60s and '70s system-built and poorly-designed/-assembled dwellings that became uninhabitable in next-to-no-time, leaving councils and ratepayers with millions of debt.