Six Bollards To Entrance Of Green Dragon Court, And Three Bollards And One Lamp Post To Rear Of The Globe Public House

Nine cast-iron bollards dated 1813, with a gas lamp post dated 1884 by Bailey Page & Co., Bankside.

There are two groups of bollards: one row of six at the entrance to Green Dragon Court from Borough High Street, and another of three to the rear of the Globe public house. The lamp post adjoins the latter group. The bollards are cast-iron posts about 1 metre high, square at the base but tapered and chamfered to form an octagon at the top; each bears an inset panel with the legend '1813 BORO MARKET' in raised lettering.

The lamp post is of more elaborate design, with an octagonal lower section inscribed 'Bailey Page & Co. 81 Bankside London 1884' rising through a series of elaborate torus mouldings, some with acanthus decoration, into a slender curved neck. It retains its original gas tap, feeder pipe and lantern of cast iron and glass.

Green Dragon Court, a small alleyway in the angle between the western side of Borough High Street and the northern side of Bedale Street, has been in existence since at least 1746, when John Rocque's map shows it under that name, the eastern part being called Frying Pan Alley. Shortly after this the Borough Market, which had been held in the High Street since medieval times, was moved to its present location to the south of the Priory, now Cathedral, church. By the early 19th century, when the present bollards were installed, the market area was already covered by a canopy. In the 1860s the area was transformed by the construction of the great triangular railway intersection connecting London Bridge, Waterloo and Cannon Street Stations. The market continued to operate beneath the arches of Sir John Hawkshaw's viaduct complex, taking its present form as a specialist fine foods retail market in the late 1990s.