Looking back at Christmas in Southwark from yesteryear
I am so thankful for the internet but oh my, has it changed our shopping habits! The markets down The...
Operator, please connect me to 1984! Remembering Christmas parties at Erlang House
Travel back to the late 1970s. You're leaving school and in the careers office up the Bricklayer's Arms, sitting patiently...
Sir William’s magnificent tree – commemorating Rotherhithe’s Lord of the Manor who helped create Southwark Park
Recently a new tree was planted in Southwark Park to commemorate Sir William Maynard Gomm. Pat Kingwell, a founder member...
Remembering our civilian dead as we pay respect to our fallen soldiers
November is the month of mists; it is the time when the veil between the living and the dead is...
Laundries, mangles and polishing the doorstep: not slumming it in Bermondsey
Right folks, I'm on my soapbox so stand by. I am Bermondsey born and bred and very proud of that...
Bermondsey Town Hall – from Victorian splendour to a bomb site and now a Sainsbury’s Local
I should think that most customers shopping at Sainsbury’s in Spa Road pass by those crumbling old gates outside without...
For whom the bell tolls: the shunned lepers of Bermondsey’s Lock Hospital
Bells have been used since ancient times to communicate. A bell once rang to summon you to church or to...
Edward VII, a modern St Anthony, and Southwark’s very own ‘gunpowder plot’
Did you know that Southwark had its own gunpowder plot and it involved a man of the cloth, who worked...
Sadness and spectacular beauty: how Nunhead became one of London’s great Victorian cemeteries
Walk across Peckham Rye and make your way through Solomon's Passage and you'll emerge in Linden Grove, the road that...
Tricorns, bicorns, bowlers and more: Christy’s 200 years as Bermondsey’s top hat makers
The warehouse was a beacon of flames. 'It's Christy's again,' shouted one local over the whine of the fire engine...
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