Exploring Southwark and discovering its history
Welcome to the pages of Exploring Southwark about long forgotten people, events and incidents, organisations and places that have disappeared without a trace.
The Magdalen Hospital for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes
Montpelier Tavern and Tea Gardens
A Grand Affair at Champion Lodge, Camberwell in 1804
Constance Road Institution, Dulwich
Thomas a Watering / Thomas a Beckett Pub
Crystal Palace High Level Railway
Rotherhithe Public Baths and Wash-House
Bermondsey Public Baths and Wash-house
Newington Workhouse (later Newington Lodge)
Wellington Public Baths, Old Kent Road
The Great Fire of Southwark 1676
The Lock Hospital, Kent Street
A 19th Century Bermondsey Tanner
James Hedger and the Dog and Duck Tavern