A WW2 aircraft engineer who was born and bred near the Old Kent Road celebrated his 100th birthday this week....
Read moreDetailsA Christmas pudding sent from Bermondsey to naval officers fighting in the Boer War turned 125 years old this Christmas....
Read moreDetailsThe surgery of Harold Moody, a trailblazing Black doctor who treated society’s poorest, has been sold after five generations with...
Read moreDetailsBermondsey boy Tom Burton has been reunited with a 1963 Dandy edition featuring his love letter about his local area....
Read moreDetailsFrom the outside, this innocuous building on a quiet South London street doesn’t look special. But for A-listers and high-flyers...
Read moreDetailsJoe Aspinall started his nomadic life in 1938 just outside of London in Ashford, Middlesex, but spent his early years...
Read moreDetailsScott Lidgett Secondary School alumni took a trip down memory lane recently, visiting the site of their old school which...
Read moreDetailsSouthwark Park Primary School is celebrating its 150th birthday today and has released previously unseen historical photographs. The school opened...
Read moreDetails‘Britain’s most patriotic’ council estate, has once again decorated its balconies and windows with fluttering England flags to support the...
Read moreDetailsWho supplied posh department stores with their swanky perfume bags and hat boxes? Who made cigarette boxes? Who made cardboard...
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