Mount Street, Newington/Walworth

[stewart_M]

Does anyone know exactly where Mount Street was in the Newington/Walworth area of Southwark.  I know it was near to the Walworth Road but that's as much as I know.  I have a book showing the entire street maps of London in 1939 but the street has obviously gone by that time as it is not listed.  I have census records from 1881 showing family members living there.

[jennifer c]

On the 1871 census the enumerator walked Horsley Street next Westmoreland Street- Lower Mount Street -then Mount Street.

It was in the parish of St.Peters Church. If you look at Westmoreland Street on todays map it is near St.Peters Church.

Jennifer

[peb21]

I believe Mount Street Newington changed names in 1912 it is now called Arnside Street. 

[jennifer c]

When Booth walked the area he said that there seemed to be a lot of Costermongers and that Mount Street was not as poor as Lower Mount Street.

Jennifer

[Plummiegirl]

There would have been lots of costermongers living and working in the area:

2 street markets in very close proximity

1:  East Street (aka The Lane or East Lane)
2:  Westmorland Road

and not more than a 15 minute walk away (if you walk fast that is)

The Cut & Lower Marsh - the same market but split by Waterloo Road.