Stephen Doerr wrote:
> Jacquelene Fillmore wrote:
>
>> My grandfather's birth certificate says that he was registered in
>> Saint Olave, Southwark, and the address of his mother was given as
>> Gainsford Street, Horleydown.
>>
>>
>
> It's on Stanford's Map of London and Its Suburbs 1862:
> <http://www.motco.com/map/81006/SeriesSearchPlatesFulla.asp?mode=query&title=Gainsford+Street&artist=390&other=677&x=11&y=11>.
> The district is there called Horsely Down. The street is still there:
> see
> <http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=533744&Y=179946&A=Y&Z=1>
> (grid reference TQ337799).
The church of St John, Horsleydown, no longer appears on the second map - it
was, I believe, bombed during WW2. On the other hand, Tower Bridge Road
isn't on the earlier map!
John Briggs
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