bankside

The ‘Southwark Needle’ and the Grisly History of London Bridge

12/01/2026 donbrown 0

Why the great long stone spike at the Southwark end of London Bridge might not mean what you think it does.

ribbons on a red metal gate. The shard in the background

Cross Bones Graveyard and the Outcast Dead

09/01/2026 donbrown 0

Across Southwark Street, a few hundred metres from the insanely busy Borough Market, is a little oasis of calm and mortality called the Crossbones Graveyard. […]

The Brewery Workers’ Attack on the ‘Hyena of Brescia’

01/08/2025 donbrown 0

Close to where The Anchor pub stands on Bankside there used to be a huge brewery (known as ‘The Anchor Brewery’) operated by the firm […]

The Bankside Reconstruction of Drake’s ‘The Golden Hinde’

20/11/2024 donbrown 0

To the high seas! with tales of exploration, piracy and 1970’s ‘practical archeology’. We’re on Bankside, at St Mary Overy Dock. ‘St Mary Overy’ was […]