boring new architecture style
park spoiled by ugly new blocks
rear of St Mary Magdalen
Bermondsey drinking fountain
St Mary Magdalen churchyard
St Mary Magdalen park
St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey
St Mary Magdalen
Bermondsey Watch House
Hepburn & Gale
Long Lane double pillar box
Hepburn & Gale of Long Lane
Simon the Tanner pub sign
Simon the Tanner
Ship pub sign
The Ship at Bermondsey
tacky new doors on old terrace
The Ship pub sign
Wild's Rents corner
Wild's Rents street sign
Wild's Rents corner shop
Shard by the old schoolyard
The Old School Yard
sun on a London bus stop
Caledonian Market
jam factory chimney
Elephant crap
unbeautiful tower blocks
ugly apartment blocks
Elephant railway arches
street stall under bridge
tacky Elephant ad
home for some poor sods
Elephant and Castle Tube Station
London South Bank University
urban ghost
handsome terrace row
old-style flats and houses
Algar House
Waterloo Road pillar box
bussing up to Waterloo
St George's House
Waterloo Road flats
Old Vic building
Waterloo bridges
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Bermondsey first grew around the Priory (founded 1082, by Alwyn Childe, a citizen of London) and shaped for ever after the streets in the immediate locality. According to the 15th century Annals of Bermondsey Abbey in 1117 the monks were walking near the river and found a mysterious crucifix, the appearance of which they attributed to a miracle; soon the Priory became a place of pilgrimage. In 1399 it became an Abbey, under the rule of the strict French Cluniac order, whose monks wore black. The Abbey increased in lands and wealth; the establishment would have employed a large service staff of lay-people: agricultural workers, musicians, cooks and stable-men.
At the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538, Sir Thomas Pope bought the Abbey Church, demolished it and used the stones to build his mansion, Bermondsey House. Neither the house nor the Abbey still stands but two hinges of the abbey gate can be seen on the outside of 7, Grange Walk
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