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  Exploring Southwark and discovering its history

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New Book: 

Once upon a Street

by Pat Kingwell

Southwark Stories

Welcome to the pages of Exploring Southwark that reveal long forgotten people, events and incidents, and organisations and places that have disappeared without a trace.

The Rosemary Branch, Peckham

Waterloo Square, Camberwell

The Walworth Costermongers

A 19th Century Bermondsey Tanner

The Bankside Stews

Walworth Common

James Hedger and the Dog and Duck Tavern The King's Bench Prison

Bricklayers Arms Station

The Old House on Camberwell Green

Bankside:  Albion Mills

Bankside:  Paris Garden

The Hermit of Dulwich

Oliver Goldsmith in Peckham

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