History & Museum Listings

CHAPLIN'S STRUGGLE ON THE STREETS BEFORE 'GOLDEN PAVED HOLLYWOOD'
28 Nov 08 - MOST LOCALS know that Charlie Chaplin is Walworth’s most famous son - but not everyone knows of his poverty stricken history before he made it big in the US...

THE 100-YEAR-OLD YOUTH CLUB WHICH HAS PRODUCED WORLD CHAMP BOXERS
25 Nov 08 - LACK OF youth clubs is the most common reason used for the rise in youth crime, but one corner of Bermondsey has had a centre which has looked after its youngsters for 100 years...

SKULL RETURNED TO MAORI
21 Nov 08 - A 200-YEAR-OLD skull was returned to a delegation of Maori people at a special ceremony at the Cuming Museum on Tuesday...

NEW EXHIBITION SHOWS WWII PLASTIC SURGERY
17 Nov 08 - CAMBERWELL ART College is set to host an extraordinary collection of pictures, that show plastic surgery being carried out during World War Two...

A ROLL OF HONOUR WHICH TELLS THE STORY OF WALWORTH'S LOSS
12 Nov 08 - WHEN TALKING about the First World War, it is tempting to think of trenches stretching across the horizon, with men like ants charging across the wasteland. But there is a more intimate story, as recounted by a simple booklet written in June of 1919.....

THE DULWICH MAN WHO HELPED REBUILD EUROPE (and took on the Nazi friendly Italian mafia at the same time!)
11 Nov 08 - EACH YEAR as November 11 approaches, the ‘News’ takes a look back at the heroism displayed by our men and women amongst the horror of war...

BEWARE THE GHOSTS AND SPIRITS OF SOUTHWARK THIS HALLOWEEN!
30 Oct 08 - IF YOU are out and about tomorrow night and you feel a hand on your shoulder, only to turn around and see nobody there, then maybe, just maybe, it will be one of the borough’s many ghosts checking to see how you are...

THE GOULISH TALE OF THE POOR RICH FERRYMAN OF SOUTHWARK
28 Oct 08 - SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL has enjoyed a long and thriving existence overlooking the River Thames, surviving the devastating fire of 1212, the reformation of the sixteenth century and various proposals to demolish the building entirely in its 1000 year history...
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TRAWLING THE GUTTERS AND SEX WITH A RAT QUEEN - The lore of olden days Southwark
21 Oct 08 - FROM WITCHCRAFT and hocus pocus to whore houses and sewer sex with rat queens, Southwark has found itself at the heart of London's folklore...

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TRADERS TO U2 - THE BOOZER THAT MARKS CHANGING SOUTHWARK
14 Oct 08 - HERNE HILL may be right on the boundaries of Southwark but one bar that sneaks inside the ropes is the Half Moon Pub, on the lane of the same name...