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The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
When Johnson first went to dinner with her, in 1765, she was Hester Thrale. Her husband, Henry, was a philandering, fox-hunting MP and the owner of a lucrative brewery in his constituency, the Borough of Southwark. Dinner was at an insalubrious spot in Dead Man's Place, near a vinegar factory and the old Clink prison. The venerable lexicographer was easily the most important visitor ever to go there....
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London SE1 community website (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Skeletons found at Cross Bones Graveyard in the Borough and at the site of Bermondsey Abbey are featured in an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection.
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London SE1 community website (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Jean Love, who has worked for Charterhouse-in-Southwark as housekeeper - and latterly receptionist - has retired after 32 years as the Borough charity winds down its operations.
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LORD CELERY (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Hello from the borough of Southwark in SE London! We had an amazing amount of snow in our village last night...enough that I was very concerned, when I first woke up at 6:30am, that we might not be able to get into London today. But by noon enough was melted that the roads were fine, and here we are! John has come with me this trip, which is just terrific! I'm running training courses for the
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London SE1 community website (Free subscription) | 06/12/2007
The Borough High Street-based British School of Osteopathy has revealed plans to move its osteopathic clinical centre to Southwark Bridge Road.