Tooley Street Research Articles

“The River Seemed Almost Turned to Blood”: The Tooley Street Fire

“The River Seemed Almost Turned to Blood”: The Tooley Street Fire

The Resonables of Boroughside, Southwark: an Elizabethan black family near the Rose Theatre

This article focuses on the archival records of a black family in Boroughside, Southwark and St. Olave, Tooley Street between 1579 and 1592. Given the proximity of this precinct, immediately adjacent to Southwark with its busy theatrical connections, including the appearance in it of Phillip Henslowe's Rose Theatre in 1587 and Shakespeare's own residence close by, this article will argue that the history of this man called Resonable and his family casts an intriguing new light on the material conditions of the production of Elizabethan drama including that of Shakespeare. The article will pursue two objectives: it will sketch a history of this black family in its locale of residence, and it will construct some lines of contact between this palpable black presence right next to the venue of Elizabethan drama's and Shakespeare's earliest and most influential plays, in the most formative years of both. In pursuing the first objective, the article will demonstrate the methodology of empirical black studies in the early modern period, and in prosecuting the second it will show the value of such studies in understanding further the vexatious topic of the black subject in Shakespeare and popular early theatre.

Let’s talk about sex

Giving sexual advice to cardiac patients is an important aspect of their overall management, no matter the cardiovascular disease (CVD) condition [1]. Sexual health is an integral component of human (male and female) well being. The World Health Organisation made it clear that all individuals have a fundamental right to sexual health, including ‘‘freedom from...factors inhibiting sexual response and impairing sexual relations...[and] organic disorders, disease and deficiencies that interfere with reproductive function’’ [2]. In 1978 I concluded ‘‘It should be routine policy to advise patients and their spouses (update this to partners) on sexual activity, whether they have had an infarction or are regularly attending with angina pectoris. Most patients with ischaemic heart disease can enjoy normal sexual relations without risk’’ [3]. Unfortunately 35 years later, though sexual counselling of patients with CVD and their partners is recognised to be an important part of recovery, advice is still not routinely provided [1–4]. The bold paper in this issue from the Netherlands depressingly confirms we have hardly moved on [5]. Of 980 members of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology mailed 53.9 % responded—were the rest too embarrassed to answer?—and only 16 % said they discussed sexual function routinely with 2 % referring for specialised advice. 54 % hid behind ‘‘lack of initiative of the patient’’ and 43 % could not make time, whilst 35 % admitted to a lack of training. The importance of initiating the enquiry has been emphasised repeatedly in several key-note publications with sample questions provided [6, 7]. Lack of time is simply a pathetic excuse whilst lack of training or understanding is recognising an honest need for further education which should be made available [8, 9]. Indeed, most studies of CVD patients and their partners suggest health care professionals provide inadequate advice about sexual activity and wish more information was provided— in other words the health care professional needs to ask pro-actively [10, 11]. Studies have clearly shown that sexual counselling improves knowledge about CVD and sex, helps relieve anxiety, increases confidence and alleviates the fear of sexual activity [12]. The cardiovascular responses to sexual activity including intercourse is similar to mild to moderate non-sexual effort—walking 1 mile (1.6 km) in 20 min on the flat or briskly climbing two flights of stairs in 10 s [13]. In longstanding (not casual) relationships the heart rate and blood pressure response is similar to that experienced during other aspects of normal daily life. Coital death is rare (±1 % of sudden deaths) and occurs usually as a result of casual sex with an age mismatch, following too much to eat and drink [14]. The need for cardiologists to be actively involved in providing sexual advice is increasing as the link between erectile dysfunction (ED) and CVD has identified endothelial dysfunction as the common denominator, with ED predicting cardiovascular events and mortality in asymptomatic men and also frequently being a problem after a CV event [6, 12]. It is also becoming a problematic area in grown up congenital heart disease [15]. There is no doubt that sexual activity is a concern for patients with CVD and their partners (it may be one person’s problem but it is a couple’s concern) and some cardiologists looking after them [8]. Because counselling is such an important component of treatment, cardiologists need to understand the physiological aspects of sex, the risks involved, and the therapy available. The Dutch have G. Jackson (&) London Bridge Hospital, Tooley Street, London SE1 2PR, UK e-mail: gjcardiol@talk21.com

Malcolm Douglas Lilly. 9 August 1936 — 18 May 1998

Malcolm Douglas Lilly grew up in Eltham in South London. His father, Charles Victor Lilly, had several awards for excellence in science at St John's School, Walworth, but left school at the age of fourteen to join Hobson & Son of Tooley Street, London, as an office boy. In due course he rose to become a director of the company. The firm was the leading manufacturer of uniforms; Charles Lilly was responsible for hats. Malcolm's mother, Amy Gardiner, also worked there before her marriage. Their younger son, Christopher, who became an electronics engineer, was born in 1946.

Post-Medieval Britain in 1985

ESSEX: LAYER MARNEY, CHURCH OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN (TL/9285 1740). Restoration of the early 16th-century chun;:h prompted examination of the fabric by D. Andrews, M. Gee and R. Hall for Essex County Council. It has been shown that the windows originally had imitation ashlar jambs in plasterwork. The rubbed-brick hood moulds were covered with pink plaster to make them look like sectional mouldings of terra cotta. Pink plaster was also applied to the plinths below the windows. At a later date, the body of the church was completely rendered with plaster, with the exception of the tower. GREATER LONDON: SOUTHWARK (TQ/32888033). During observation, by G. Dennis, M. Hammerson and D. Seeley for Museum of London, Department of Greater London Archaeology, of contractors' works adjacent to the S.W. corner of St. Olaf House, Tooley Street, the remains of the 18th-century stoneand brick-built hexagonal tower of St. Olaf's Church, which survived to modern street level, were recorded.

A STUDY OF THE DEMAND FOR BUTTER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Statistical estimation of the demand function for most industrial, and many agricultural, products is inhibited by price fixing or price stabilizing arrangements which prevent observation of the full range of possible price-quantity combinations. In the period 1956 to 1961 the London butter market has illustrated how markedly price can fluctuate, when not subject to a stablizing agreement. In the period 1958 to 1961 estimates of retail sales of butter are available, and these permit the estimation of the demand for butter at retail. The time lag between production and consumption decisions means that there is no problem of identification. The present study uses weekly price and quantity information, and there is a serious problem of auto-correlation of the observations. The interesting story of the development of the London butter market in Tooley Street has been ignored. Rather, this study provides a brief description of the current working of the butter market, together with new estimates for the demand function for butter in the United Kingdom. Previous estimates of the United Kingdom price elasticity of demand for butter have been published by Brown as -.6, in 1954-58, by Stone as -.37 in 1921-38 and anonymously in Economic Trends as - .34. In this study the elasticity is estimated as -.46 when retail price exceeds 2/6 lb., and as -1.4 at 2/6 to 2/2 lb.

St. Olave's Church, Tooley Street: Telegraph tower

St. Olave's Church, Tooley Street: Telegraph tower

Sussex pronunclation of place-names

Journal Article Sussex pronunclation of place-names Get access F. Alban Barraud F. Alban Barraud 167, Tooley Street, S.E.I. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s12-X, Issue 196, 14 January 1922, Page 30, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s12-X.196.30a Published: 14 January 1922

Organs and Organists of St. Olave's, Tooley Street, Southwark

Organs and Organists of St. Olave's, Tooley Street, Southwark

Tooley street: Tooley family

Tooley street: Tooley family

Tooley Street: Tooley family

Tooley Street: Tooley family

Three tailors of tooley street

Three tailors of tooley street

Three tailors of tooley street

Three tailors of tooley street

IV.—On a Section of the Thames Alluvium in Bermondsey

During the early part of 1899 extensive excavations were made on the south side of Tooley Street, Bermondsey: just east of Shand Street, and on the site of Nos. 156–164, Tooley Street. The spot is about 250 yards from the present bank of the Thames. The whole area was excavated to a depth of about 10½ feet from the level of the pavement; below this, trenches and holes for the foundations were dug to a further depth of 6 to 8 feet. The section on the south side of the excavation is here given.

Three Tailors of Tooley Street

Three Tailors of Tooley Street

Three tailors of tooley street

Three tailors of tooley street

XVI. Letter addressed by John Gage, Esq. F.R.S. Director, to Henry Petrie, Esq., accompanying drawings of Remains of the Prior of Lewes' Hostelry, in the parish of St. Olave, Southwark

The Church of St. Olave, Southwark, was confirmed to the Prior and Convent of St. Pancras of Lewes, in Sussex, by William, second Earl Warren and Surrey, son of their founder, and in face of the Church on the south side of the way now called Tooley Street, contiguous with Carter Lane, they built, or became possessed of, a Hostelry for the convenience of the Prior and monks coming to London, and for the reception of strangers. It does not appear how they acquired this property; the charter of confirmation does not comprise any lands in Southwark. Earl William died in 1138, and there are sufficient grounds for presuming that the Prior had no lodgings in St. Olave's until a later period.