5 Hidden Corners in Borough, London SE1

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Great video Rob, I went & had a look around this fascinating area earlier this week after watching your video

Rob, your channel is rather lovely.

Well done - especially the Cross Bones yard.

Thanks! Very much enjoy your commentary.

Thanks Rob always fascinating

Fascinating, Rob. Thanks a lot !

hello rob i used to live in a council flat in southwark in 1960/61. i went to school in st patricks cornwall road but went to the church of the most precious blood in O'Meara Street, the flats are long gone but were victorian red brick i think, do you know where they were and what they were called, my mother told me the changed the road patern so i cant can't tell from walking around. i hope that it's not too much to ask . grainne

"...collapsed, killing eight people. What a shame."

More classic English humour.

Love the vids - if this one is your first viewed you have a few gems in store.

Southwark Cathedral is a fascinating Cathedral - often overlooked. Worth a visit to find out even more about its history, with links to Chaucer, Shakespeare and Harvard University! You can meet Hodge the cat too, named after Samuel Johnson's famous cat!
Thank you for mentioning it in your interesting video. I know the Cathedral very well and your knowlege of it and the surrounding area is absolutely spot-on. 👍

Really enjoyed this video, especially Nancy’s Steps. I organise London Pub Tours, and my favourite tour is around London Bridge. This gives me a chance to give me a short talk on London Bridge and Nancy’s Steps, pointing out the mistakes. Unfortunately the plaque was stolen some time ago.

Everything you do is so interesting! Watching from the other side of the pond——Jane

A bit of drunken mischief ! Times don’t change that much, after all. Well, apart from seeing someone’s head on a pole ….. thank goodness. Great video and fantastic tour. Thank you 😊

Thoroughly enjoyed this! I especially liked the “whistle past the graveyard “ at the end! Thank-you!

Well done Rob. I didn't know that about John Harvard, very interesting.

Great vid Rob.
About religion, don't be surprised that majority of religion's are corrupt.
Or don't use their fortunes for the right purpose.

I love these videos so much! I’d love it if you made more of them! As someone who has been to London several times but lives in Canada and probably won’t be back for a while, it made me feel like a tourist again 😊

Would love to know what has really happened in the past. The hiStory we get told about is laughable.

What I hate is that so much of old London is disappearing to be surrounded by monstrous modern architecture 😢

Interesting video, I wish I had made it out of Borough market but I was eating there.

When you showed the blue plaque to John Harvard which is on the front of the Harvard Library, you missed the opportunity to walk down that alley way and look at the red brick wall on the right. You will see indentations and very old metal rings set deep into the wall which is the interior face of the only wall remaining of the Marshalsea Prison. The rings used to have chains and manacles attached to string up troublesome prisoners. Charles Dickens' father was once incarcerated in this prison. You also missed visiting The Clink prison located alongside the ruins of the Bishop of Winchester's Palace. It is usually acknowledged as the oldest prison in England, the current building dating back to 1151. The name gives rise to the old slang word for prison...."being in the clink".

Was at college at the end of Tooley Street in the late 80's, it's charged so much since then...for the better

Very Interesting - thank you!

Thank you Rob, thoroughly fascinating.

Brilliant. I wandered around Borough a few days ago and managed to miss some of these, so will no doubt return better informed thanks to you. Many thanks.

I live on the Peabody Estate right by the tourist trap "Boro' Market"... It's like living in a theme park mate but at least Micky Mouse gets paid in Disneyland!!! 👉🇬🇧👈👉💎👈❗

Brilliant as always Rob. It's an area that I don't know much about, as you know, I'm a St James's man,, so it was extremely interesting. The graveyard was very touching.

Once again, another great video. Areas I know, facts I did not. Thanks Rob!

Thanks Rob do not forget the link to Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey . I do tours on st saviours down at Brookwood. Most likely this is where Edwin Shakespeare is buried, since the rebuild to southwark cathedral in 1898

Loved it Rob. We took in a lot of what you have shown, when we visited in March last year. Called in the Barrowboy for our tea.

Wasn’t the Tabard Inn nearer to the top of the Old Kent Road, where Tabard Street is nowadays?

Hi Rob, I recently spent just one precious day in London, (one of my two only per year sadly); we didn’t do Borough this time but I have previously lunched at the Anchor, but if we’d known of the wonderful George we would have chosen that instead, looks fantastic with its galleries. Thanks to your video I’m now wiser and will hopefully eat there next time!

Fabulous video Rob I never gave Southwark much thought but now I'm definitely going to visit this year.

I consider myself as a Sarf Londoner. Fascinating history. Of course if you want to visit a Rose Theatre you need to travel a little further to South West London , Kingston. My favourite spot in Borough is London Bridge Station and the area around, Tooley Street, Guys Hospital etc.

Most interesting, informative and evocative, thank you.

I love the channel, I use to live in Southfields,have you ever been there?

Gotta love England.

Mediaeval Palace right next to super modern glass skyscraper.

Next to a bridge that has been built 3 times.

The conversations these streets of stone have heard.

Great video Rob! I really enjoyed the info on The Globe theatre

Loved it 🙂. I work in Borough and love nosing around the old parts. Particularly like the legend of St Mary Overie - the precursor to Southwark Cathedral? There's an explainer board I think up near the Golden Hinde replica?

I wish I was forty years younger with good hips. I'd be all over it.
Wonderful, as always Rob.

Thank very much. I love London and I love to hear about all these fantastic treasures round the corner from expensive places. I know what I shall be visit soon.❤❤❤

Beautiful video Rob. I really do enjoy your work.

Beautifully put together Rob. Your videos flow so well, it's such an easy, pleasant watch!
With love from Yorkshire :) x

always brilliant! thank you Rob 😊

Thank you for the video!

Another interesting video.
You asked whether your viewers knew of any other places of interest in Borough.
I have always wanted to visit the Old Operating Theatre museum which is at St. Thomas' Church. Does that count? I suppose you could say this is London Bridge but it is close to Borough Market.

Very good vid, particularly loved the historic pubs and crossbones yard..I've been in the George, good boozer...Nice one Rob🍺👍

TYFS this was fascinating. Please would you consider doing a Victorian era video on Borough, maybe including mint street workhouse

Rob one of your best videos
really enjoyed this video
worked at the back of the anchor pub in the early 80 s
the market was only veg if i remember right and a bit run down .
i go back once or twice a year the atmosphere is good
especially in the pubs never new about the Ferryman's chair
once again thanks Rob keep them coming
all the best

Like going home. Thank you Rob. So many emotions , so recently given here, love and loss, joy and deep sorrow. A glimpse to make me very "homesick" yet grateful for all my times spent here. From Canada, hopeful for a 2024 return.