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Lost Industries of Southwark Education Resources Worksheet 3 (using Document 2)Bermondsey Businesses Worksheet |
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Find Bermondsey Street on Map 1b. It is 1867 and you are setting up your own shop or some other kind of business in Bermondsey Street. The most up to date list you have of what is already here was published by the Post Office the year before. Look at the Trade Directory . You are looking for what is called ‘a gap in the market’. This means a service which is in demand but not being catered for.
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To find out what kind of shop or business to open, make your own headings of all the types of shops and businesses listed in the Trade Directory. Put them into categories, like the categories used for the colour coding map.
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Can you think of a business that has not been set up in Bermondsey Street in the 1860s?
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Go back to the information from the Trade Directory. Why do you think a business providing this service has not yet been set up here?
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Why do you think it would be a good idea to set this business up in Bermondsey Street?
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Make up a name for your Victorian tradesman/woman.
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Give you business a suitable name. Most businesses in those days were named after their owners.
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