View of 91-97 Borough High Street, Southwark, through an archway between numbers 50 and 54; the entrance to Calvert's Buildings. A timber-framed two-storey building reputed to be built in 1542 and originally The Goat Inn public house, later called The Brew House. Calvert's Buildings takes its name from Felix Calvert, brewer, who occupied the site from 1786 to 1794. The building is Grade II listed, number 1378350. Borough High Street is one of the oldest streets in London being the main thoroughfare from London Bridge to Kent since antiquity. Number 91 is a narrow four-storey eighteenth-century house with a mid-Victorian shop front with shop sign HENRY BOURNER Ltd, who was a Carman, a driver of horse-drawn goods vehicles. In the mid-eighteenth century this building was the Bell and Bear Inn. It was subsequently occupied by a toyman, a tallow chandler, an oilman, a hosier and as 'oyster rooms', and is now a dental surgery. It is Grade II listed, number 1378358. Outside is a NO WAITING sign and a pillar box. Number 93-95 form a three-storey pair of houses with a mansard roof and dormer windows built in the early to mid-eighteenth century as. The shop front is late-nineteenth century with an off-centre door, decorative moulding around the door frame and wrought-iron decorations to the ground-floor window sills. During the late-eighteenth century, number 93 was a cheese merchants and number 95 a confectioners. Later a hop merchant's office, it is now offices and Grade II listed, number 1378359. A bicycle is propped up against the wall and two women are walking past. Number 97 was destroyed by bombing in World War II and a modern single-storey building, a hardware shop, occupies the site. It has since been replaced by a modern five-storey building.
