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Southwark Attractions
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This museum is an interesting place to visit, as it is specifically themed around the black community of London. This however does not mean that visitors are not welcome...
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The Bankside redevelopment has completely reinvigorated the area of the Thames south bank close to Southwark Bridge. The area which until recently was just derelict warehouses and abandoned housing...
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This little known gem of a museum situated in what was once the heart of the London tea trade, hosts evocative displays and a large array of tea and coffee...
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Located in Southwark Park, Café Gallery is a marvellous place to look at artworks, at the heart of a beautiful pastoral environment. The collection is changed on a regular...
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The Cuming Museum presents a varied and relatively general historical museum that has a great deal of pieces that have been brought together over a period of many years....
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Dilston Grove is one of the more famous areas of Southwark Park, and has been mentioned in many great works of literature and poetry throughout the years. The park...
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This fascinating building stands on the southern bank of the River Thames and is home to one of the best known and historic newspapers in the world. The Financial...
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This museum is located at the Fire Brigade Training Facility in Southwark, and has exhibits from over 300 years of firefighting history, dating back to the Great Fire of London....
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Located close to the River Thames in Southwark, the George Inn is owned and maintained by the National Trust and is the last galleried inn to remain in the capital....
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This fine sculpture was designed by prominent sculptor and artist Kenneth Hughes. It represents an interesting modern artistic interpretation of a classical view of the holy family. Southwark...
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Southwark Local Studies Library carries an extensive collection of materials and documents that relate to the long and illustrious history of this area of London. There are over 20,000...
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The London Dungeon is the interactive historic horror attraction, which dispenses fear and fun in equal doses. Visitors can experience life in old London and encounter some of the gruesome...
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The Menier Art Gallery is based within the former Menier Chocolate factory at the centre of Southwark. The gallery is open to the public and offers a large collection...
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The Menier Theatre is also known as the Chocolate Factory, because the building was completed in the 1870s for the purpose of making chocolate. The building now holds the Menier...
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The London Bankside Novas Gallery opened in 2007 as part of the cultural quarter of this riverside area of Southwark. Once the site was an office block and has...
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Hidden in the roof of a church, a 300-year-old herb garret houses the only surviving 19th century operating theatre, complete with wooden operating table and observation stands, from which spectators...
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The Church of La Salette and Saint Joseph is the second church in the area dedicated to La Salette, the first being the church of La Salette and Saint Patrick,...
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This charitable trust was opened in 1959, and holds a collection today of over four thousand works of art by modern British and contemporary artists. It brings together a...
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Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre was rebuilt under the guidance of Sam Wanamaker, and is a fairly accurate reproduction of the original Globe Theatre which was built in Elizabethan times nearby. The...
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London’s oldest Gothic Church building including historic links with Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theatre and US University benefactor, John Harvard. The cathedral contains a wealth of interesting memorials. Visitors can...
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Southwark Cathedral Churchyard is a place of great tranquillity and calm surrounded by the manic streets of Southwark and the Borough. For many centuries this has been a place...
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The Southwark Playhouse is one of the more recent theatres to open in London, having been founded in 1993. The building itself is a converted Victorian coffee and tea warehouse....
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St George the Martyr is one of the oldest parishes in the area, having been founded as far back as the 12th Century. It is probably the first church in...
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The original Cathedral on the site was completed in 1848, and was designed by A.W.N Pugin. However, it was not until two years later, when the English Hierarchy was restored,...
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It was originally planned as the centre of a grand Regency townscape, but all that now remains of St George’s Circus is the stone obelisk in the middle of roundabout....
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St Matthew’s at the Elephant is an Anglican church, and was rebuilt in 1993. As part of a multiracial community, the church acts as both a place of worship and...
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The former water gardens of the Casina Villa are now a city park. The Villa was built by John Nash in 1796 for the lawyer, Richard Shaw, who made his...
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Established in 2000, Vinopolis is a combination of restaurant, tourist attraction, wine producer and corporate venue. The main attraction is the wine tour which encompasses wine from both old and...
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This scheduled ancient monument is managed by English Heritage. Winchester Palace would once have towered above the River Thames on the south bank in Southwark, a 13th Century residence...
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