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When Galleywall Road School was being renovated a load of old 'stuff' was found in the voids of the floorboards. ...

For years the only place for mentally unwell patients was Bethlem Hospital or Bedlam, as it was nicknamed.  Now home...

This picture shows the junction of Old Kent Road and Albany Road and marks the old boundary of Camberwell; an...

The smell of mildew growing on the damp walls, the stench of the unwashed, the sobs of those awaiting the...

Imagine going for a moonlight stroll around the streets of Southwark in the early nineteenth century. The dark, unlit roads...

For the Elizabethans and Jacobeans Bankside was the Soho of its time, full of pimps, prostitutes, perversions and playwrights. Where...

Medieval Southwark, like its Roman predecessor, was the principal suburb of London. The Borough High Street was a jostling thoroughfare...

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this photo for sale - it shows The Queen Vic in Southwark...

Am I the only one who stands there bamboozled and somewhat shocked at the huge variety of ready-made sarnies on...

In times past Snowsfields had a reputation for being an impoverished area. The sheer lack of hygiene, money and proper...