History & Museum Listings

AN INCREDIBLY MOVING STORY
09 May 12 - LAST WEEK, the News revealed there was a little piece of Southwark hidden in a corner of Kent – a Southwark Council owned block of flats called Gillies Court built in Sidcup in the ‘60s and still there to this very day...

IT'S PIE WAY OR THE HIGHWAY
14 Mar 12 - ONE OF London’s oldest pie and mash families is to be honoured with a street in Walworth named after them. ..

TINKERS, TAILORS, SOLIDERS AND SAILORS
07 Mar 12 - FROM TAILORING for the army to a gentlemen’s outfitters in the nice part of Soho, the McCarthys have been all these and more in the past 200 years...

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHARLES DICKENS
29 Feb 12 - ON A dark, cold October night in 1857, so the story goes, Charles Dickens stepped out of his London home in Tavistock Square at two o'clock in the morning, and walked to his country house, Gad’s Hill Place, near Rochester, some 30 miles away. ..

'THEIR BLOOD STAINED THE STONE FLAGS...'
22 Feb 12 - LIVING SURVIVORS of the tragic Blitz-time bombing of a Walworth Church are being asked to tell their stories for a special BBC documentary...

TEENAGE BOY GOD WHO LOVED ICE CREAM
15 Feb 12 - IT WAS Mark Twain who famously said that truth is often far stranger than fiction - and over the years, many a strange tale has graced the pages of the News...

LOST BUILDINGS OF SOUTHWARK NOW ON RECORD FOREVER
30 Nov 11 - BUILDINGS COME and go right across London and Southwark has been the case in point for many a decade. New facades are too often replacing older structures, for a variety of reasons, leaving the former buildings as a distant memory...

THE DOCTOR WHO WAS SALTER THE EARTH
23 Nov 11 - As regular readers of this particular page will be well aware - Bermondsey has a lot of history - it has tales to tell of wars, social unrest, religion, derring do and massive advancements, writes Jon Surtees... ..

THE BLITZ: THE SECOND WAVE OF ERROR
16 Nov 11 - THE BATTLE planners of the Luftwaffe realised the vital role Southwark would play – and targeted it for horrendous bombing. In the final years of the war Southwark found itself a target once more, writes Kevin Quinn.....

THE BLITZ: A CATALGUE OF TERROR
10 Nov 11 - THE BATTLE planners of the Luftwaffe realised the vital role Southwark would play – and targeted it for horrendous bombing, writes Kevin Quinn.....

MEMORIES BACK ACROSS CENTURY
04 Nov 11 - FEW ARE alive who remember what the Walworth Road and Old Kent Road areas of Southwark were like more than eighty years ago...

SPOOK GOINGS-ON IN SOUTHWARK
27 Oct 11 - GHOSTS AND SKELETONS wander the streets of the capital at this time of year, eager to scare unsuspecting adults into handing them sweets...

BERMONDSEY - THE HOME OF SARSONS
13 Oct 11 - DO YOU want vinegar on your chips? A question always asked when you pop down to your local chippy...

DID THE TEDDY BOY PHENOMENON START IN THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE?
06 Oct 11 - IF YOUR view of a ‘Teddy Boy’ is of colourful suits, giant suede shoes that could be any colour of the rainbow and is based on Showaddywaddy performances from the ‘70s then you are wide of the mark...

VISIONARY POET BLAKE REMEMBERED
21 Sep 11 - PECKHAM ISN’T the first London dwelling that springs to mind when one envisages angels swinging from trees; especially in light of the recent riots that hit the area not much longer than a month ago...

VANISHING LONDON CAUGHT ON CAMERA
14 Sep 11 - SOUTHWARK IS a place that is constantly evolving, both in the transient nature of people in the area and its physical appearance...

R WHITE'S BIGGEST SECRET - IT WAS STARTED ON A BARROW IN CAMBERWELL
08 Sep 11 - ARE YOU a secret Lemonade drinker? Are you trying to give it up but it’s one of those nights?..

THE PRISONERS OF PECKHAM
07 Sep 11 - TODAY AN information board will be officially unveiled on Peckham Rye Common that reveals the area’s own little contribution to the war effort...

THE PICTURE HOUSE OF BYGONE ERA
31 Aug 11 - If your idea of a night out at a cinema is a bag of overpriced pick and mix, a box of popcorn and tickets purchased from surly young staf,f then a trip to Kennington’s Cinema Museum could transport you to an era where a night at the flicks is where a pauper could be treated like royalty. ..

THE BLITZ SPIRIT - A TIMELY REMINDER
11 Aug 11 - THE TERRIBLE scenes witnessed in Southwark and across the capital this week are sure to go down as some of the darkest moments in London’s history. ..