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The Jubilee Walkway - Southwark
This panel is dedicated to the memory of Sir James Swaffield, Director General of the GLC between 1973 and 1984 and a Trustee of the Jubilee Walkway Trust from 1977 until 2012.
The Jubilee Walkway is a popular …
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Southwark Cathedral
For over 1,000 years Christians have worshipped here:
AD 606 - a convent
AD 1106 - a priory
AD 1540 - a parish church
AD 1905 - a cathedral
The oldest gothic church building in London. Gower, Chaucer, Shakessp…
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The Glaziers Hall
Pool of London
The land in this area formed part of the site of the cloisters of the Church of St Mary Ouverie, now Southwark Cathedral. After the dissolution of the monasteries in 1540 it was sold and eventually bought by the…
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Sir Francis Drake
1540 - 28th January 1596
Sir Francis Drake was a 16th century explorer, privateer and English National Hero who has inspired countless generations around the world. He was the first English captain to circumnavigate the globe …
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Queen Elizabeth I
7th September 1533 - 24th March 1603
Elizabeth acceded to the throne in 1558; when England was in a period of great turbulence, fraught with religious tensions, internal political struggles and later threats from the Spanish …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28DP_the-legend-of-mary-overie_London-England.html
The Legend of Mary Overie
Legend suggests that before the construction of London Bridge in the tenth century a ferry existed here. Ferrying passengers across the River Thames was a lucrative trade. John Overs who, with his watermen and apprentice…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28DO_old-thameside-inn_London-England.html
Old Thameside Inn
Old Thameside Inn at Picktord's Wharf was formerly a tea warehouse, converted into a pub in the 1980's. Next to it stands a fulf-size model of Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hind (in which he captured great treasures on the high sea…
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Old Thameside Inn
The Old Thameside Inn was once an old spice warehouse in the very busy Pickfords Wharf in the Pool of London on docks that date back to the 16th Century. Behind the pub is "The Clink" Street Prison, the private prison of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28DL_st-saviours-southwark-world-war-i-memorial-a-war-memorial_London-England.html
( east side )
Give Honour to the Men of St. Saviour's Southwark
Who Gave Their Lives for the Empire 1914 - 1918
Their Names are Inscribed Within
The Parish Church
May Their Memory Live For Ever In the Minds of Men
( west side )
This Memo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM284D_southern-railway-world-war-ii-memorial-a-war-memorial_London-England.html
To the Memory of the
626 Men of the
Southern Railway
Who Gave Their Lives
In the 1939 - 1945 War