Of course, this sort of thing isn't new... From Southwark and Bermondsey Recorder, 26 December 1919.
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Sad to see the wooden manhole cover at the Westminster Bridge Road/St Georges Road junction is in its final days.
Drone flies over Waterloo to help catch rail line trespassers www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...
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July 31, 1926: The demolition of a nearly 200-year-old church, St. Olave’s in London’s Southwark section, that has fallen into disrepair amid a diminishing parish population.
“Greedy Goat in London's Borough Market is tackling food waste by using leftovers from other market stalls in its goat milk ice cream.” uk.news.yahoo.com/goat-milk-ic...
The goat milk ice cream tackling food waste, one scoop at a time
Greedy Goat in London’s Borough Market is tackling food waste by using leftovers from other market stalls in its goat milk ice cream. The stall's ice cream is made on its farm in Dorset and founder…
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Porchester House next to Sainsbury’s in New Kent Road
Get Living closes student block for a year as fire safety work begins on Elephant and Castle scheme
This week the first business at the new Elephant & Castle shopping centre site redevelopment opened its doors to customers - coffee and matcha chain Blank Street
Some finds from my first solo mudlarking trip under Southwark bridge
Someone working for The Sun went down to the basement of their building to buy a greetings card but found the shop was closed www.thesun.co.uk/money/398850...
British card chain confirms sudden store closure as it battles 'rising costs'
A POPULAR card store in a major train station has closed down after seven years. The family-run business has been a staple on high streets for over 30 years, but has now shut its doors unexpectedly…
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From midday - an afternoon of steel band performances in Jubilee Gardens on the South Bank, part of the Festival of Britain 75th anniversary celebrations www.se1.news/whatson/#sun...
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View of London from the Founder's Arms terrace, 1998 and 2023 -- both photos by me. 📷 ( #London #thenandnow #photography #history #architecture )
Tonight - free open-air screening of National Theatre's Hamlet in Lower Marsh www.se1.news/whatson/#sat...
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“Mariners are advised that on Saturday 25 July, a single stand-up personal watercraft (jet ski) will undertake a transit of the Thames between Gravesend to Tower Bridge.“ pla.co.uk/notices/M66-26
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Westminster Bridge closed to traffic as a result of this incident - TfL says buses diverted via Lambeth Bridge
This week our teams spoke with customers at Charing Cross and London Bridge, answering questions and helping people prepare for the Charing Cross & Waterloo East closure (26 Jul-16 Aug). Plan ahead: spkl.io/633217K6rR
The former Spit & Sawdust (previously Beehive) pub in Bartholomew Street is up for rent www.loopnet.co.uk/listing/21-b...
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Blackfriars Road - advance warning of closure for crane operation
The former producers of the now-defunct Vault Festival are renaming their Waterloo venue the Glitch as Lower Marsh Arts Club. 👇
Vault Festival producers’ venue the Glitch to rebrand as Lower Marsh Arts Club
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How Elephant and Castle risks becoming London’s gentrification ‘patient zero’
How Elephant and Castle risks becoming London’s gentrification ‘patient zero’
New £500m town centre welcomes its first tenant this month, but displaced traders say promises that they could return have been broken
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This morning, Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme featured XO Barbers, the social enterprise which trainers prisoners to cut hair and repair bikes. Find them in the former Sons of Temperance Friendly Society building in Blackfriars Road www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... #bbcbh
Many will remember HMS President which used to be moored next to Blackfriars Bridge. Yesterday it was towed to a scrapyard.
GPS Iberia and GPS Arcadia with HMS President leaving Chatham for Erith Photos by Marquis from a post on FB by Liquid highway
Deadly Skies Over Lambeth: The night a V-2 fell on Lambeth Baths vauxhallhistory.org/deadly-skies...
Deadly Skies Over Lambeth: The night a V-2 fell on Lambeth Baths
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LEGO Architecture 21067 Tower Bridge is now available to pre-order, and some fans can also score a returning gift-with-purchase for a limited time. www.brickfanatics.com/pre-order-ne... #LEGO #LEGONews