26 Sep Ginger Beer in Grange Road
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Grange Road is well-known locally for the Alaska Building and now the revitalised pickle factory site at New Tannery Way. In the early 20th century, the Alaska Building was a tannery for seal skins imported from the Hudson Bay Company in Canada – a smelly business. The pickle factory made Branston Pickle, also a pretty smelly process. From a great piece in Southwark News, we now learn that there was also a ginger beer factory in Grange Road, adding its own special something to the aroma cocktail in the street.
Read the story of the ginger beer factory, as told by Debra Gosling, here https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/bermondsey/bermondseys-long-forgotten-ginger-beer/