The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.

* 1921 – The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.

* Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is set in a company of pilgrims on their way from Southwark to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark Bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in.

Southwark ( pronounced ) is a district of Central London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark.

Southwark is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Sudweca.

The southern location is in reference to the City of London to the north, Southwark being at the southern end of London Bridge.

Two Roman roads, Stane Street and Watling Street, met at Southwark in what is now Borough High Street.

Much of Southwark was originally owned by the church — the greatest reminder of monastic London is Southwark Cathedral, originally the priory of St Mary Overy.

Southwark, since 1999, is also now serviced by Southwark, Bermondsey and London Bridge stations on the Jubilee Line.

They are part of the Bermondsey and Old Southwark Parliament constituency and the Member of Parliament is Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes.

It is within the Lambeth and Southwark London Assembly constituency and the London European Parliament constituency.

Southwark is the location of City Hall, the administrative headquarters of the Greater London Authority and the meeting place of the London Assembly and Mayor of London.

To the north is the River Thames, London Bridge station and Southwark Cathedral.

A new £ 25 million student residence is also expected to be built in Southwark by 2012.

It is located between Southwark Bridge ( downstream ) and Blackfriars Railway Bridge ( upstream ).

Bermondsey () is a district in south London, and a part of the London Borough of Southwark.

Camberwell is a district of south London, England, and forms part of the London Borough of Southwark.

The London Borough of Southwark is a London borough in south east London, England.

The tales ( mostly written in verse although some are in prose ) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

Shortly after the film was released, Cleese and Palin engaged in what would become a notorious debate on the BBC2 discussion programme Friday Night, Saturday Morning, in which Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the Bishop of Southwark, put the case against the film.

The " Pythonesque " film explored the events surrounding the 1979 television debate on talk show Friday Night, Saturday Morning between John Cleese and Michael Palin and Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the then Bishop of Southwark.

A memorial plaque was unveiled at Southwark Cathedral, England, on May 24, 1961.

** Fifty-one people die when the Marchioness pleasure boat collides with a barge on the River Thames adjacent to Southwark Bridge.

This action provokes protesters to riot ; in the Southwark district of London, troops fire on the mob, killing seven, the Massacre of St George's Fields.

In April 1939, the Bishop of Southwark asked Jung if he had any specific views on what was likely to be the next step in religious development.

In the first race, the course took a diversion around Southwark Park before re-joining Jamaica Road on the way to Tower Bridge and was routed through St Katherine Docks past the Tower Hotel, en-route to the Tower of London and the famous cobblestoned stretch of road that in later years was carpeted, to help runners prevent injury on the uneven surface.

In 2007 the Unicorn Theatre for Children was opened on Tooley Street with both the Southwark Playhouse and the Union Theatre having premises in Bermondsey Street.

The Mayor of Southwark for 2009-2010 was Cllr Tayo Situ ( Peckham Ward ), who was elected on 19 May 2010.

The Deputy Mayor, Cllr Lorraine Lauder MBE ( Faraday Ward ), was elected Mayor of Southwark at the Annual Meeting of Council Assembly on 24 May 2011.

The rose on the right is from the Southwark arms where it represented St Saviour's parish, i. e. the Cathedral.

Dulwich Hospital in East Dulwich Grove was designed by Henry Jarvis and built on of land purchased in East Dulwich by the Guardians of the Poor of the Parish of St Saviour, Southwark, for the price of £ 50, 000 in 1885.

The traditional ends of the medieval bridge were marked by St Magnus-the-Martyr on the northern bank and Southwark Cathedral on the southern shore.

In April 1854, after preaching three months on probation and just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, was called to the pastorate of London's famed New Park Street Chapel, Southwark ( formerly pastored by the Particular Baptists Benjamin Keach, theologian John Gill and John Rippon ).

Croydon Parish Church was rededicated as a Minster by the Bishop of Southwark on 29 May 2011.

In December 1554, Parliament re-enacted the penal statutes against Lollards, and on January 22, 1555, two days after they took effect, Rogers ( with ten other people ) came before the council at Gardiner's house in Southwark, and defended himself in the examination that took place.

Since 1994 the Crown Court for the west London Boroughs, previously based at Knightsbridge, was rehoused in Southwark as Blackfriars Crown Court.

In 1924 the museum moved to space in the Imperial Institute in South Kensington, and finally in 1936 the museum acquired a permanent home which was previously the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Southwark.

The Swan was a theatre in Southwark, London, England, built in 1595 on top of a previously standing structure, during the first half of William Shakespeare's career.

She had previously been Leader of Southwark Council from 1990 to 1993.

He had previously represented Southwark North and Islington North in the House of Commons.

Although the museum's south London home ( a nineteenth century building in Southwark which was previously the Bethlem Royal Hospital ) had been extended in 1966, by the end of the decade the museum was seeking additional space.

The diocese was established on 28 May 1965, having previously been a part of the larger Archdiocese of Southwark.