History & Museum Listings

GARIBALDI AND THE AUSTRIAN BUTCHER
18 Jan 13 - IT WAS the question Gordon Brown could not answer: “What’s your favourite biscuit?”..

THE DAY THE STORM HIT SOUTHWARK
25 Oct 12 - "EARLIER ON today a woman rang the BBC to say she'd heard there was a hurricane on the way. Well, if you're watching, don't worry there isn't...” ..

SOUTHWARK FROM ABOVE
27 Jun 12 - DID YOU know that three different aeroplanes have crashed in Southwark Park?..

A KNEES UP THROUGH THE YEARS!
13 Jun 12 - WHAT COULD be more British than a good old fashioned street party - as last week’s bumper edition of Jubilee pictures proved, it’s what we south Londoners do best...

THE CHARITY THAT STARTED WITH 'OLD MOLL'
23 May 12 - THIS THURSDAY, a small group of people clad in robes and gold chains will gather in a quiet corner of Southwark Cathedral...

ANY OLD IRON! ANY OLD IRON!
17 May 12 - “ANY OLD iron! Any old iron! Any any any old iron!”..

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...