Pictures of Bermondsey & Rotherhithe

The oldest pack of foxhounds inSurrey was kept by Mr Gobsall in Bermondsey in 1750
from Bermondsey Spa Regeneration News

by 1792 a third of the leather in the country came fromBermondsey
from Bermondsey Spa Regeneration News

Queen Elizabeth 1st passed through Bermondsey in 1601 and the bellringers were given six pence because they 'rang a merry peel'
from Bermondsey Spa Regeneration News

Rotherhithe Underground Station (1884) was the first tunnel under a river anywhere in the world. Built for cargo, opened as a shopping arcade and now the oldest tunnel on the London Underground.

That the entrance arch of Rotherhithe Tunnel is actually the cutting edge of the tunnel shield

Bermondsey Abbey, founded in 1082 by Clunic monks built a bridge across the Neckenger river and ran 2 mills one at the Neckenger and the other at Millpond Road

That the stainless steel box in the middle of the Elephant & Castle roundabout commemorates Michael Faraday 1791 - 1867 English chemist and physicist who lived locally

To get from one side of Bermondsey to the other you HAVE to go under a railway arch?

Rotherhithe became part of Borough of Bermondsey in London in1900.

Shad Thames was where spices were stored and it’s said the bricks were so infused with spices that you can still smell them. By 1972 all the warehouses were closed, and remained derelict until they were turned in to luxury flats and shops in the 1990s.

In fact they were squatted by skint artists for a few years in the 70's, before the council let them rent cheaply.  They were there until developers forced them out in the mid 80s.  Many of those artists stayed in the area and went on to form the Bermondsey Artists' Group who are based in the Cafe Gallery Southwark Park.

This is all documented in a DVD: The Bermondsey Artists' Group Story which they sell in the gallery. (from Emma)

Pope Constantine I (708-715) wrote a charter to Vermundeseri (meaning the island of Beornmund) which defined the rights of the abbot who name was Hedda, and the local bishop