Southwark Street, London, SE1 - c1970?
A view, looking west, of Southwark Street in London at the junction with Southwark Bridge Road with a motley collection of vehicles - and London Transport Routemaster bus RM 960 (WLT 960) turning north on route 18 to Sudbury in the days (before 1985) when the 18's inner terminus was London Bridge station. RM 960 survives in preservation. The junction features an earlish example of traffic management with only buses being allowed to turn right here - a feature of the junction today although since the 17 (the 18's replacement here about) was re-routed over London Bridge I can't think of any bus around to make the right turn!
Amongst the other road vehicles can be seen a Leyland lorry belonging to Taylor's Transport and a selection of British built cars including a Ford and a Wolseley. Of the buildings - the new block on the right survives - as does the decorative pile on the left - most of the structures in the distance have been redeveloped especially as now this part of town is one of of the new, up and coming and increasingly soulless 'hot spots'.
The street lighting consists of CU columns and brackets with Eleco (?) sodium lanterns, one or two rare examples of which still hang on in the locality.
Southwark Street, London, SE1 - c1970?
A view, looking west, of Southwark Street in London at the junction with Southwark Bridge Road with a motley collection of vehicles - and London Transport Routemaster bus RM 960 (WLT 960) turning north on route 18 to Sudbury in the days (before 1985) when the 18's inner terminus was London Bridge station. RM 960 survives in preservation. The junction features an earlish example of traffic management with only buses being allowed to turn right here - a feature of the junction today although since the 17 (the 18's replacement here about) was re-routed over London Bridge I can't think of any bus around to make the right turn!
Amongst the other road vehicles can be seen a Leyland lorry belonging to Taylor's Transport and a selection of British built cars including a Ford and a Wolseley. Of the buildings - the new block on the right survives - as does the decorative pile on the left - most of the structures in the distance have been redeveloped especially as now this part of town is one of of the new, up and coming and increasingly soulless 'hot spots'.
The street lighting consists of CU columns and brackets with Eleco (?) sodium lanterns, one or two rare examples of which still hang on in the locality.