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Southwark itself had been an ancient borough from at least the 12th century until the 19th century. However, for most of its history it was a manorial property of the neighbouring City of London rather than being a self-governing borough with its own corporation.
The proposed development combined the refurbishment of some Victorian warehouses with the construction of a modern six-storey office block behind the warehouses. [1] [2] [a] The site was assembled by the developer, Great Portland Estates, at a cost of £19 million in 2004 [5] [6] and the building was forward sold to UBS Global Asset Management for £94 million, before works started, in June 2006.
The postcode area originated in 1857 as the SE district. In 1868 it gained some of the area of the short-lived S district, with the rest going to SW.It was divided into numbered districts in 1917, by giving the district closest to London that hosted the head office the suffix "1" and all others alphabetically based on a locally important parish, chapelry, topological or built environment ...
Montague Close is a street in London, England, close to London Bridge in London SE1, [1] within the London Borough of Southwark. [2] The Worshipful Company of Glaziers is located here. [3] To the south are Southwark Cathedral and Borough Market.
Old Kent Road [a] is a major thoroughfare in South East London, England, passing through the London Borough of Southwark.It was originally part of an ancient trackway that was paved by the Romans and used by the Anglo-Saxons who named it Wæcelinga Stræt (Watling Street).
Former South Eastern Railway offices at No. 84 Tooley St can be seen on the left of this photo, running parallel to the river, between it and the railway line. Tooley Street is a road in central and south London connecting London Bridge to St Saviour's Dock; it runs past Tower Bridge on the Southwark/Bermondsey side of the River Thames, and forms part of the A200 road.
Footballer Tommy Langley was born in Elephant on 8 February 1958. In December 1962, John Major started work at the London Electricity Board . Actress and television presenter Lisa Maxwell was born in the area on 24 November 1963, where she was raised by her single mother and her grandparents.
The London postal district is the area in England of 241 square miles (620 km 2) to which mail addressed to the London post town is delivered. The General Post Office under the control of the Postmaster General directed Sir Rowland Hill to devise the area in 1856 and throughout its history it has been subject to reorganisation and division into increasingly smaller postal units, with the early ...