Anyone with a team of horses made a bee-line for the station.
When that terminal was demolished to make way for the current station, various private estates and institutions acquired the 10 or 11 eagles.
But whether, as has been suggested, the Giants would make ideal new owners for the station, I can't quite say.
A campaign group was formed in 2009 by Bermondsey residents to press for funding to be made available for the new station.
The properties were acquired in the early 1980s and the houses razed to make way for the station.
The next was built where the present one stands and was torn down in 2005 to make way for the new station.
Over 300 houses were demolished to make way for the station and the rail yard.
Then we made for the station to ride the one stop to Center, as the middle of the town was called.
Bond turned back into the town and made for the station.
One of the small ones managed to slip through the line and made a dash for the station.