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FROM WAR TO THE WINDRUSH23 Jun 08 - THE GENERATION who battled for us during World War Two and left Jamaica for a home in the UK..
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ROTHERHITHE TUNNEL TURNS ONE HUNDRED12 Jun 08 - TO SOME it may just be another part of that congested daily drive to work, but there is far more to Rotherhithe Tunnel than a black hole of car fumes...
THE GLITZ AND THE GLAMOUR OF THE ELEPHANT AND CASTLE!06 Jun 08 - THE GLITZ and glamour of the 1930s picture house went down in history at the Elephant and Castle this week, with the unveiling of a commemorative plaque.....
FIRST CRICKET MATCH FOR NEW BERMONDSEY OVAL04 Jun 08 - MOVE OVER Vauxhall, as there is a new cricket oval in town. The inaugural match on the new Southwark Park cricket strip will be held in June, and teams will be playing for the Bobby Abel Cup...
BOWLING POINT AT ONE HUNDRED04 Jun 08 - IT MIGHT not be the most glamorous of Southwark's sporting venues, and its players may never have become household names, but this year sees the centenary of one of the borough's most popular and enduring sports clubs. ..
SOUTHWARK'S HISTORY STARS IN NEW BOOK ON DERELICT LONDON03 Jun 08 - SOME PRIME examples of Southwark history, now demolished or in states of ill repair, star in a new book about derelict sites in London...
THE CIVIC CENTRE WHICH TOLD AND PLAYED ITS PART IN LOCAL HISTORY27 May 08 - THE ARCHITECTURE of the mid 1960s might not have created the most beautiful sights the world has ever seen, but there is a building on the Old Kent Road that manages to encapsulate the rich history of the area...
OLDEN DAY IN THE DOCK19 May 08 - Court room proceedings of over 197,000 trials that took place in our nation’s central criminal court – the Old Bailey - have been placed online for public consumption in larger quantity than ever before...
HEAR HISTORY14 May 08 - In answer to any history hunters' dreams, a new podtour has been launched of Shakespeare's Southwark...
RE-LIVE THE D-DAY LANDINGS14 May 08 - One of Britain's most celebrated moments of history will be re-enacted on the HMS Belfast this month. The D-Day landings will be re-lived on the cruiser, which took part in the dramatic invasion of French beaches...
THE THOMAS A' BECKETT: A POPULAR HAUNT FOR BOXERS, DRINKERS AND THE ODD GHOST06 May 08 - THIS LONDON mecca of British boxing is an empty–standing monument to both conflict and pilgrimage...
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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF - A GLIMPSE THROUGH THE PAGES OF THE RECORDER02 May 08 - Anyone who reads the Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago column on our letters pages may have noticed that many themes seem to recur through our paper...
SCRUBBING AND PAMPERING AT WALWORTH'S MANOR PLACE BATHS21 Apr 08 - Manor Place holds many fears for me. It is the place my father dragged myself and my brother along to for haircuts for most of our young years and well into our teenage ones. ..
GUNS AREN'T A NEW THING TO PECKHAM - IT USED TO HAVE A SHOOTING RANGE!11 Apr 08 - Tucked behind Rye Lane is one of Peckham's best kept secrets, a building that was once one of a number that together formed the area’s thriving industrial past.....
CYRIL THE WAR HERO WRITES HIS MEMORIES08 Apr 08 - It's not often on these pages that we write about living history. Most of the people who are discussed have sadly passed away. ..
IT COMES IN ALL COLOURS, AS LONG AS YOU CHOOSE RED08 Apr 08 - THE DESIGN Museum will be celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Model T Ford this month by placing one of the original, iconic cars in its outdoor Design Museum Tank on the riverfront..
THE BERMONDSEY MAN WHO DIED A HERO AFTER GIRL'S RIVER RESCUE31 Mar 08 - Good Friday has just come and gone, but if you passed through Rochester in Kent at the start of the Easter weekend in 1912 you would have witnessed the self sacrifice of a Bermondsey man that led to him being declared a hero...
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WARTIME LONDON
26 Mar 08 - An illustrated talk on Black Londoners in World War Two is being held at the Cuming Museum on Thursday, April 3...
26 Mar 08 - An illustrated talk on Black Londoners in World War Two is being held at the Cuming Museum on Thursday, April 3...
THE SHINING BEDE IN THE ROUGH OF BERMONDSEY AND ROTHERHITHE25 Mar 08 - The Bede House project celebrates it 70th anniversary this year and its survival is down to its doggedness and flexibility..
THE 'BELLA OF BLACKFRIARS' WHO BROUGHT BOXING TO THE MASSES17 Mar 08 - David Haye destroyed his Welsh opponent at the weekend and looks set to add to the illustrious history of boxers from the borough. ..
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