A procession of elephants appearing in local theatre make their way along the street at Elephant and Castle, south London.  17th April 1936. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images).

Sidney Barnard and his company at the Elephant Theatre sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ at the end of their performance, which is the last one before the theatre is pulled down to make way for a more modern one. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

A giraffe’s head being transported by car to the Elephant and Castle Theatre, London, for the pantomime ‘Cinderella’, 20th December 1926.  (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images).

950 sailor boys arriving at the Elephant and Castle Theatre, London, to see ‘Dick Whittington’.   (Photo by H F Davis/Getty Images).

950 sailor boys arriving at the Elephant and Castle Theatre, London, to see ‘Dick Whittington’.   (Photo by H F Davis/Getty Images)

Some of the 950 sailor boys being entertained by a band outside the Elephant and Castle Theatre, London, where they are to see ‘Dick Whittington’.  20th January 1928. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images).

‘Candid Caine’ TV- 1969 – Michael Caine signing autographs for children in the Elephant and Castle area, London. (Photo by ITV/Shutterstock 915714fs).

A woman customer pulls her own pint of beer at The Elephant and Castle, London, England. June 1959

London housewives queued in their patient thousands from early morning today, Friday, to buy sufficient bread to type their homes over the victory and Whitsun holidays. At the elephant and Castle there was a queue from 5 AM. 7 June 1946

A German bomb dropped on the Elephant and Castle District of London, is believed responsible for damaging this block of homes, on June 6, 1942. Nineteen persons were killed and 59 injured. London authorities said that the bomb must have been dropped thirteen months before it exploded, 1941. (Photo by AP/Shutterstock 7402989a)