Seagulls screeching overhead, the hammering of shipwrights, the smell of tar, the masts of ships peeping over the tops of tiny cottages. Since the fourteenth century this was the scene that met the traveller to Rotherhithe, or Redriff as it was form… This is premium content for subscribers only Get the real storyAs Southwark changes … Continue reading Smuggler, sailor, caulker, pirate: The many faces of maritime Rotherhithe