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Fire and Water: A History of St Olave’s Church
St Olave's church in Tooley Street was the founding parish name and mainstay of Bermondsey and it was mentioned in...
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Eileen Greenwood and the ‘fat old ladies of Bermondsey’ fracas
Here's a forgotten face from Bermondsey. Miss Eileen Greenwood took over from Edward Snowden as the Bermondsey Borough Council's Mayor...
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When a Mitford sister slummed it in Rotherhithe
The reality of life in one of London?s most overcrowded, and poorest areas, soon hit with full force
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When the fashion crowd had a riot at Borough Market
Alexander McQueen?s 1997 London Fashion Week finale made headlines around the world
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Lord Haw Haw: The Nazi supporter from Dulwich who was the last person hanged for high treason in the UK
The last man to be hyanged for high treason peddled his hateful anti-Semitic views around Dulwich
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The 1980s Southwark mortuary scandal which saw corpses robbed of jewellery, cash, and their glands sold for growth hormones
The former superintendent of Southwark's mortuary new tell-all memoir lifts the lid on what really happened during the eighties
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George Brown: the Southwark boy who became Foreign Secretary
Brown allegedly threatened to resign from cabinet nearly twenty times during his career
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