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Bermondsey had been host to London's first railway, from Spa Road, as part of the London Bridge to Greenwich line, and the junction of lines from Croydon and Kent at South Bermondsey, the Brunel's Rotherhithe foot-tunnel was converted into part of the East London Railway with original connections from Liverpool Street Station via Whitechapel to New Cross and New Cross Gate.
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Such speculation increased after Labour lost the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, in which Peter Tatchell was its candidate, standing against a Tory, a Liberal ( eventual winner Simon Hughes ) and the right wing John O ' Grady, who had declared himself the " real " Labour candidate and fought an openly homophobic campaign against Tatchell.
The eastern parishes that had formed the St Olave District instead became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey.
By the mid-19th century parts of Bermondsey, especially along the riverside had become a notorious slum — with the arrival of industrial plants, docks and immigrant housing.
As in the East End, industries that were deemed too noisome to be carried on within the narrow confines of the City of London had been located here — one such that came to dominate central Bermondsey, away from the riverfront, was the processing and trading of leather and hides.
It is not clear whether Henry VI had known the existence of his half-brothers until his mother told him while she was dying in Bermondsey Abbey.
View of East Country Yard Show with Anya Gallaccio | Anya Gallaccio's installation in foreground, 1990. In liaison with Hirst, Carl Freedman ( who had been friends with him in Leeds before Hirst moved to London and was helping to make Hirst's vitrines ) and Billee Sellman then curated two influential " warehouse " shows in 1990, Modern Medicine and Gambler, in a Bermondsey former factory they designated Building One.
Later the Militant tendency were cited as the reason for Tatchell's selection, but as Tatchell pointed out in his book The Battle for Bermondsey, they had at that time only a handful of members in the constituency, Tatchell had never been a member and Militant did not support his selection.
However, the Bermondsey Labour Party continued strongly to support him, and Tatchell worked on convincing Foot that his article was in the tradition of the Chartists and the Suffragettes, and had been misinterpreted by Labour's political opponents.
Although the Bermondsey seat had long been a Labour stronghold, the Liberal candidate, Simon Hughes, won the election.
The election result in North Southwark & Bermondsey in the 2005 general election was a poorer one for Hughes than those he had achieved in previous battles.
At the United Kingdom general election, 1983, held a matter of months after the by-election victory, the constituency had been redrawn as Southwark and Bermondsey.
Therefore Bermondsey Priory had control of most of the Southwark area, its ' home ' manor excepting the The Borough and the eastern side of the high street which had already been within the ownership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, which divided the Priory's holdings.
Goodwin's own constituency party in Bermondsey had been taken over by the left, including Peter Tatchell who was soon to be selected to succeed Robert Mellish as the MP.
He had been apprenticed in 1804 to William Dacie at a paper mill in Bermondsey, then to a Mr Hall in St. Mary Cray when Dacie retired.
The company came under pressure to reopen Spa Road station, as competition from the railway had caused the demise of a horse-drawn coach service from Bermondsey to Deptford.
He married Margaret ( Meg ) Patricia Riley in 1954, whom he had met in a Methodist church when living in Bermondsey.
At the 1981 Greater London Council election, the Liberal Party had come second in Bermondsey.
The right-wing former Labour leader of Southwark Borough Council, John O ' Grady, who had been a target for the left-wing faction locally, also decided to stand under the banner ' Real Bermondsey Labour ' with Robert Mellish's support and encouragement.
In December 1981 he attempted to solve the problem of Michael Foot's denunciation of Peter Tatchell ( who had been selected as Labour candidate for Bermondsey ) by holding a quick enquiry, but this attempt failed when Foot loyalists passed a motion to refuse Tatchell endorsement.
Bermondsey and been
Thus Bermondsey need not have been an island as such in the Anglo-Saxon period, and is as likely to have been a higher, drier spot in an otherwise marshy area.
Though not many buildings survive from this era, one notable exception is the church of St Mary Magdalen in Bermondsey Street, completed in 1690 ( although a church has been recorded on this site from the 13th Century ).
Members of the Liberal Gay Action Group campaigned wearing lapel badges emblazoned with the words, " I've been kissed by Peter Tatchell " as a protest against the perception that he was attempting to hide his sexuality ( see Bermondsey by-election, 1983 ).
By the election in 1997, this has been redrawn again as North Southwark and Bermondsey, with a further change prior to the 2010 election at which the seat was titled Bermondsey and Old Southwark.
Southwark North & Bermondsey is unusual for an Inner London constituency in that it has been represented by a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament ( MP ) for over twenty-five years.
Since the seat's creation in 1997, the Member of Parliament has been Simon Hughes, who has sat for the various Bermondsey seats since a by-election in 1983, as a Liberal MP until 1988 and as a Liberal Democrat since then.
The patronage of St Magnus, having previously been in the Abbots and Convents of Westminster and Bermondsey ( who presented alternatively ), fell to the Crown on the suppression of the monasteries.
In Deptford the Fowler's Troop and Blackheath Morris have been parading the tallest and heaviest modern Jack for many decades, either in Greenwich, Bermondsey and the Borough or at Deptford itself, and at the end of May a Jack is an essential part of the Pagan Pride parade in Holborn.
Bermondsey and London's
The Surrey Docks Stadium is located in the heart of South London's Docklands area, just down the road from the Surrey Quays shopping mall and a short distance from The New Den in nearby Bermondsey.
Bermondsey and first
Joseph Watson was trained as a teacher of the Deaf under Thomas Braidwood and he eventually left in 1792 to become the headmaster of the first public school for the Deaf in Britain, the London Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in Bermondsey.
The first ' Bermondsey ' is that known as the location of an Anglo-Saxon monastery, and known from later charters to be the area around the post-Conquest Bermondsey Abbey and its manor, which was in turn part of the medieval parish.
His father worked for a meat wholesaler in Smithfield Market, and was also the first Liberal to be elected to Bermondsey Council.
Greenwich was linked by a massive brick-built railway viaduct with 878 arches, first to a station in Spa Road ( Bermondsey ), and later to London Bridge.
The station came into existence when the London and Greenwich Railway opened its first section between Spa Road, Bermondsey and Deptford on 8 February 1836.
Hughes was first elected to Parliament in the Bermondsey by-election of 24 February 1983.
A new building was built in Bermondsey Street, with the first stone being laid on 17 November 1834.
A party of monks from Bermondsey Abbey provided the nucleus and the first abbot.
Spa Road railway station in Bermondsey, south-east London, was the original terminus of the capital's first railway, the London and Greenwich Railway ( L & GR ).
Bermondsey was one of the first by-elections to be extensively polled.
He is represented as the first Mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey, which incorporated this street, and was erected shortly after his death in 1908.
It was first manufactured by the Bermondsey biscuit company Peek Freans in 1861 following the recruitment of one of the great biscuit makers of Scotland, John Carr.
The first section, between Spa Road in Bermondsey and Deptford, opened on 8 February 1836.
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