Posted in Bermondsey on 19 05 09 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Alan sent me this link to a site full of information about the River Thames and London’s docks. It contains plenty of history – text, photos and even videos.
“You showed me nutmegs and nutmeg husks,
Ostrich feathers and elephant tusks,
Hundreds of tons of costly tea
Packed in wood by the Cingalee
And a myriad drugs which [...]
Posted in Bermondsey on 22 04 09 | Leave a Comment »
My visit is nearly over and I have had no time to return to SHL, where there are thousands of fascinating photos and illustrations of the neighborhood. I visited Southwark Council website today and they have posted a few old photos in their eMuseum. If they ever have the time and money to scan the [...]
Posted in Bermondsey on 25 01 09 | 1 Comment »
A visitor posted a comment about Mark Brown’s wharf and how he was working there when they made a film called Pool of London (1951), starring Bonar Colleano. It must have a lot of great footage of the river but I couldn’t find any trace of a video or a DVD of the movie. In [...]
Posted in Bermondsey on 21 12 08 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been getting my Christmas fill of film and TV adaptations of the works of Charles Dickens. A few days ago, I saw the last episode of the latest BBC adaptation of Little Dorrit. Overall, I found it disappointing. The biggest problem for me were the 30-minute episodes. Each one fairly raced along, as the [...]
Posted in Bermondsey on 11 12 08 | Leave a Comment »
There are a number of useful websites about Bermondsey. They include:
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/
http://www.bermondseyvillage.org.uk/
http://www.discoverlondonbridge.co.uk/default.aspx?m=23&mi=195&ms=0
I’ll add more as I visit them.
Posted in Bermondsey on 09 12 08 | 2 Comments »
I have categorized this under Bermondsey but the post is, in fact, about a neighborhood north of the river. However, the similarities between the two areas in decades past were so great that I think it is well worth seeing the images and understanding the context. Interestingly, both have undergone a process of gentrification in [...]
Posted in Bermondsey on 18 11 08 | Leave a Comment »
Pearly King Jim wrote a comment under the Old photo of the York post. He claims to be the King of Bermondsey – not sure about that, though, I’d need to know more about his lineage! He sings as part of the The Barrow Boys duo and figures on various websites here, here and here. [...]
Posted in Bermondsey, My journey on 03 11 08 | 2 Comments »
Today I received an old photo of the outside of The York from a niece of the former landlords (or “publicans”). Not sure about the year of the photo but it does give a feel of how it was many years ago. I added the photo to a previous post with a pic of the [...]
Posted in Bermondsey, My journey on 19 10 08 | Leave a Comment »
I imagine most older people like myself still think of Rotherhithe, directly to the east of Bermondsey, as Surrey Docks. As a child, I regarded it as part of the same neighborhood. I believe Michael Caine was born there, in St. Olave’s Hospital, which I don’t think exists any more. The Mayflower, which took the [...]
Posted in Bermondsey, My journey on 13 10 08 | Leave a Comment »
Southwark History Library is a real Aladdin’s cave, full of local records and photographs. I was sorry not to have been able to spend more time there during my stay (it closed temporarily) but hope to do so on my next visit.
I photocopied some photos and then scanned the photocopies, so the quality isn’t that [...]
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