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Waterloo Road - traffic down to a single lane due to roadworks opposite the station

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Bust of Violette Szabo on top of a memorial to the members of the S.O.E. in World War II, on the South Bank of the River Thames in London See:https://www.violette-szabo-museum.co.uk/violette.html

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Landsec puts £200m Bankside office development on hold

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On this day in 1977, the first production opened in the Cottesloe (now called the Dorfman) at the National Theatre, an 8½ hour epic called “Illuminatus!” by Ken Campbell. artandhue.com/southbank

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The new Screwfix in the Old Kent Road has a 10% discount opening promotion.

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Missing cat - Old Kent Road

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Jack's bar in Isabella Street (nr Southwark tube) is becoming Molly Mc's singing pub

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The news is finally out ... the replacement for M&S in Walworth Road is ... ... Lidl Licensing application: app.southwark.gov.uk/premises/app...

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Westminster Bridge Road, SE1

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Daffodils in Bermondsey Spa Gardens, with the former Bermondsey public library behind. #SundayYellow

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This morning at Holy Trinity Church, Dockhead, Bermondsey, a Mass is taking place to mark the 80th anniversary of a V2 bomb hitting the presbytery, resulting in the death of three priests. A fourth priest and their housekeeper were rescued from the rubble.

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I’ve found all these pieces of glass cane and decoration on the foreshore at Bankside. Noxious industries and those with a high fire risk were banned from the City of London, so Southwark became a centre for glass-making. Glasshouses are recorded there from at least the 17th c to the late 19th c 1/

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The fabulous Lost Gardens of London exhibition at the Garden Museum in Southwark, next to Lambeth Palace, ends tomorrow. Highly recommended if you have the chance, and a reminder of ephemeral our precious green spaces are, and we we should fight to protect those that have survived #GardenMuseum

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"Residents at the former Crosse & Blackwell pickle factory in Bermondsey say they can no longer afford their affordable homes because of service charge increases.”'

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Protest against overdevelopment and in favour of more council housing reaches Elephant & Castle. @shapecoalition.bsky.social march began in Peckham and is heading to Newington Causeway where Berkeley Homes is planning skyscrapers on Mercato Metropolitano site. #SHAPEprotest

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Elephant & Castle full of Scouts and Guides taking part in Monopoly Run event

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Every now and then I remember how worthwhile it is to look up while hurrying from pillar to post. Love this, in Borough High Street. Click on the image to see impressive roofline, unlikely to be seen by anyone much from street level!

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These aquatint engravings are from J. Hassell's 'Excursions of Pleasure and Sports on the Thames' (BAY H 7.4 NO 16), illustrating scenes from London and nearby counties in 1823. Featured are views of London Bridge, Battersea Reach, Blackfriars Bridge, and Putney. #ArtHistory #LondonScenes

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Our next Mobile Phone Boot Camp in #Waterloo focusses on #WhatsApp. Learn & Connect with others and build confidence 📆 FRIDAY 28th FEBRUARY 13.30-15.30 📌 Oasis Hub Waterloo, 1A Kennington Rd, SE1 7QP 📑 Back to Basics https://buff.ly/41ag46Y #Lambeth #DigitalInclusion

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🌱 Mega planting task for gardeners at Potters Fields Park by London Bridge. Looks like they’re going for a dry garden - exactly what I’d do if I was starting from scratch #plantsky

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Where is central London anyway? An investigation, involving multiple maps

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£9 million penthouse on the market next to Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside

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Fundraising gig this Friday at Mercato Metropolitano E&C this Friday evening to help family of young London musician of Latin American origin who drowned in Amsterdam raise money for investigation / legal challenge. See @tunedinldn.bsky.social posts for more info www.se1.news/whatson/#fri...

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A few items of SE1 interest at new London Archives exhibition on WWII, including bomb damage maps, photo of Londoners sheltering from Blitz at Elephant & Castle tube and a painting of Southwark Bridge in 1945 https://www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us/exhibitions/london-in-the-second-world-war

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Lambeth Council's auditors have formally recommended that the authority "identify additional savings and efficiencies to mitigate forecast overspends" according to a public notice released this evening

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#OnThisDay 1900: London Bridge station (deep level) was opened by the City and South London Railway. ➡️ https://buff.ly/41sqVKW

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Managed to capture the freshly unveiled retro Network SouthEast Traįn today, speeding past the low rises of Bermondsey https://www.europesays.com/1873620/ Managed to capture the freshly unveiled retro Network SouthEast Traįn today, speeding past the low rises of Bermondsey…

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Watch live as Southwark councillors consider plans for the refurbishment and extension of the listed Driscoll House hostel in New Kent Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYbhgY380J0

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Sunset from Blackfriars Bridge

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Tonight - Waterloo Community Development Group AGM including discussion on the proliferation of dockless hire bikes around Waterloo Road www.se1.news/whatson/#tue...

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£12.5k a month to rent a flat overlooking Borough Market (with a 'no riff raff' sign above the bedroom door)

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In my update this week, I dig into the news that Matt Abé will be leaving Restaurant Gordon Ramsay to open a new fine dining spot in the Le Gavroche space. There’s also a review of the Anchor & Hope in Southwark and some thoughts on restaurants requiring pre-payments to reduce no-shows.

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Icons painted on ammunition boxes from Ukraine are on display at Southwark Cathedral until Thursday this week https://cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/icons-on-ammunition-boxes-exhibition/

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Waterloo Bridge closed to traffic on Sunday morning due to London Winter Run https://www.londonwinterrun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/2025-CRUK-LWR-Road-Closure-Map-with-mobile.pdf

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From a Bankside brothel to a temporary ecological park next to Tower Bridge, several of the 'lost' gardens of Southwark and Lambeth are featured in the current Garden Museum exhibition, which closes in just over a week Read more ➡️

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Very grisly question, but does anyone know of any women whose heads were impaled on sticks on London Bridge? I’ve read that the 16th century prophet Elizabeth Barton was the only one, and am wondering if this is true #earlymodern #skystorians #LondonBridge

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Waterloo Road, SE1

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⚠️ NEW: Due to a fault on a train at #WaterlooEast Trains from Charing Cross towards London Bridge are being delayed The driver is working to rectify the fault.

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Spring time in the Tibetan Peace Garden at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park

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The former IBM building on the South Bank is in line to be the new UK headquarters of Lego

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On Love Your Pet Day, here's a photo of @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social's Hodge the Cat joining @deanoakley.bsky.social in the pulpit during last Sunday's sermon www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mklt...

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Shard View with Southwark Bridge. I can’t cross a river without stopping to take in the view. It brings a sense of inner calm and balance. This is a linocut print from a few years ago. #shardview #linocut #printmaking

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'Railway Bridges, Southwark' (2011) by David Gentleman davidgentleman.com

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Joe Haines, journalist and former press secretary to prime minister Harold Wilson, has died aged 97. In 2019 he published his memoirs, including details of his Rotherhithe and Bermondsey childhood Read more ➡️ www.se16.com/6116-joe-hai...

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This week is the 250th anniversary of the birth in Southwark of the artist Thomas Girtin. Girtin was born in 1775 in Great Bandy Leg Walk (today's Great Guildford Street). Our 2002 piece on Girtin by @leigh-hatts.bsky.social:

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Anyone know what happened at the DPD depot in Mandela Way? Rammed with a vehicle?

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