Made In Bermondsey Artworks
Blue Bermondsey BID is committed to promoting the rich industrial heritage of the area as one of our priorities. With funding from Southwark Council we have worked with our partners and local Historians to create the ‘Made In Bermondsey’ graphics in the public car park. Transforming grotty garage shutters into inspiring and informative works of art.
The onset of the Industrial Revolution in the early Nineteenth Century brought great change and the landscape of Bermondsey was transformed by the rapid increase in trade and commerce.
Factories and processing plants sprang up all over the area providing the main source of employment for many generations of local people, creating a rich manufacturing heritage.
The world’s produce was imported down the Thames into the Docks and the Wharves to be prepared, packed and distributed throughout the country and across the world.
Chocolate, Jams, Biscuits, Custard, Spices, Fruits, Pickles, Vinegar, Beer, Glue, Leather Goods, Hats, Cosmetics and whatever else you could think of came out of the factories of Bermondsey.
The area became known as ‘London’s Larder’. The factories are now all gone but the memories still linger in the surviving buildings, place names and geography of the streets.
Big thanks to local lady Wendy Nowak for supplying the pictures.
