History
Waterloo phone box sold at auction for £25,000
A grade II listed phone box outside the Waterloo Action Centre in Baylis Road has sold at auction for £25,000.
History
A grade II listed phone box outside the Waterloo Action Centre in Baylis Road has sold at auction for £25,000.
History
Two grade II listed red phone boxes in Waterloo are up for auction later this month, with guide prices ranging from £35,000 to £45,000.
Arts & culture
The four artists in the running to design a national Windrush Monument at Waterloo Station have been announced.
History
The Florence Nightingale Museum at St Thomas' Hospital - which earlier this year announced it would remain mothballed after lockdown - is to stage a series of monthly open weekends starting next month.
History
A Victorian house built in connection with the Bethlem Hospital has been given grade II listed status by the Government.
Business
A travel agent with its roots in Victorian Southwark has become the latest victim of the COVID-19 crisis.
Arts & culture
"London Bridge, Southwark, and most critically Guy's Hospital, are at the heart of the Keats story," claims writer Suzie Grogan.
History
The surviving building of the railway which once carried the coffins of dead Londoners from Waterloo to a Surrey cemetery could soon be converted into flats.
History
A wooden WHSmith kiosk which once stood on the concourse of Waterloo Station is being restored as part of a £500,000 revamp of the National Railway Museum's Station Hall in York.
Health
The Florence Nightingale Museum at St Thomas' Hospital is to close to visitors for the foreseeable future and expects to make staff redundant.
Obituaries
Graham Gibberd, long-standing Waterloo resident and author of 'On Lambeth Marsh', has died aged 87.
History
Friday's special service of Choral Evensong commemorated the anniversary of Thomas Becket preaching at the Priory of St Mary Overie, now Southwark Cathedral, on 11 December 1170 before heading out of London for Canterbury and his subsequent martyrdom in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170. "Back in
Transport
The reopening of Vauxhall Bridge to general traffic - schedule for late November - has been delayed till 10 December after workers came across old tram tracks buried below the road surface for nearly 70 years.
Obituaries
Tributes have been paid to designer and restaurateur Sir Terence Conran who has died aged 88.
Transport
A sculpture created for the Festival of Britain in 1951 has been installed at Waterloo Station.
Planning & Development
A charity with a 300-year history has unveiled plans to rebuild and expand its almshouses just off Blackfriars Road.
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