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THE STORY OF LONDON’S
BANKSIDE
THE STORY OF LONDON’S
BANKSIDE
Throughout history, Bankside has been on the other side of London’s mainstream.16th century ‘Banksyde’ was outside the walls of the City, making it a natural landing place for outsiders and free thinkers. It became notorious as London’s rowdy pleasure quarter full of theatres, brothels and gambling dens.
Today, rich in art, entertainment and culture, Bankside has a bold and independent spirit shaped by its past – an ‘otherness’ that inspires creative thinking.
As a storyteller and influencer in Bankside, we need you to help us tell the Bankside story so those who work, explore, live, learn about, and visit Bankside are clear why it’s different and attractive.
Bankside has a multitude of facets which contribute to its otherness...
Southwark Cathedral
Tate Modern
Shakespeare’s Globe
In the 16th century, English playing companies began constructing purpose-built playhouses. This phenomenon brought Bankside’s greatest export: the work of William Shakespeare.
Bankside has changed how the world imagines.Bankside is one of London’s leading cultural quarters, evolving from a rich, diverse and authentic heritage. It is home to some of London’s most visited and renowned cultural institutions.
Bankside has been a place where people have come to experience culture for over 1000 years.
A CULTURAL SIDEThe Golden Hinde
A CHAOTIC SIDEBankside has a bold and independent spirit shaped by its rebellious past.Bankside has always been a place of refuge and sanctuary for outsiders and free thinkers.
Once London’s rowdy pleasure quarter, located outside the city walls and its jurisdictions, it was home to stews, gambling dens, taverns and theatres. It attracted outcasts, dissenters and misfits.
The medieval network of streets encourages exploration and discovery and it has an ‘otherness’ that inspires creative thinking to this day.
Crossbones Garden
Southwark Street
The prostitutes in Bankside were known as ‘Winchester Geese’, licensed by the Bishop of Winchester. Many were buried in unconsecrated graves within what is now Crossbones Garden on Redcross Way.
Commit No Nuisance Sign
Winchester Palace
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St George’s Road
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Long Lane
Long Lane
Long Lane
Berm
ondsey Street
Berm
ondsey Street
Southwark Street
Southwark Street
Berm
ondsey Street
Upper Ground
Upper Ground
Doon Street
Ren
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Str
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Stamford Street
Paris Gardens
Colombo Street
Hatfields
Hatfields
Broadw
all
Meymott Street
Scoresby Street
Gam
bia Street
Chancel S
treet
Bear Lane
Price’s Street
Farnham Place
Nicholson Street
Burrell Street
Hop
ton
Str
eet
Holland Street
Union StreetUnion Street
Nelson Square
Nelson Square
Surrey Row
Pocock Street
Roupell Street
Wooten Street
Cons Street
Boundary RowMitre
Road
Webber Street
Silex Street
Glasshill Street
Loman Street
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Wel
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Trundle Street
Mint Street
Lant Street
Little Dorrit Court
Tabard Street Pilg
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Stap
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Swan S
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Cole Street
Porlock Street
Snowfields
Guy Street
Weston S
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Ayer
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Redc
ross
Way
Quilp Street
Copperfield Street
Ris
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Str
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King’s Bench Street
Rushworth Street
Boyfield Street
Lancaster Street
Webber Street
Coral Street
Baro
n’s P
lace
Webbe
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Mor
ley
Stre
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Frazier Street
Pear
man
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Windm
ill Walk
Hatfields
Greet Street
Theed Street
Stamford Street
Whittlesey Street
Aquinas Street
Duchy Street
Cornw
all Road
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lk S
treet
Lavington Street
Ewer S
treet
Sumner Street
Park
Stre
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Redc
ross
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Park StreetClink Street
Duke Street Hill
Tooley Street
Bedale Street
St Thomas Street
Kings Head Yard
Talbot Yard
White Hart Yard
Collingwood Street
London Bridge Street
Ban
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Sto
ney
Str
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Great Suffolk Street
Great Suffolk Street
Gre
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Pond
Westminster Bridge Road
Westminster Bridge Road Borough Road
Waterloo Road
Waterloo Road
Bayl
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Road
Cab R
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Lower Marsh
Waterloo Road
Upper Ground
Trinity Street
Guildable Manor Street
Newin
gton
Cau
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Valentine Place
Tooley Street
Rose
Alle
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Crucifix Lane
Bitt
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Joan Street
The Cut
Ufford Street
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Brid
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Union Street
Tyer’s Gate
Whites Grounds
Mor
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Stre
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St Thomas Street
Kipling S
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King James S
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Davidge St
Ufford Stre
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Chaplin
Close
Marshelsea Road
BANKSIDEGALLERY
MENIERCHOCOLATE
FACTORY
ST GEORGE THE MARTYR
THE ROSE PLAYHOUSE
THE FERRYMEN’S
SEAT
JERWOOD SPACE
CERVANTESTHEATRE
KIRKALDY TESTING MUSEUM
UNIONTHEATRE
GOLDEN HINDE
WINCHESTER PALACE
REMAINS
CLINK PRISON
LOWLINE
London BridgeStation
BoroughStation
SouthwarkStation
BlackfriarsStation
Bankside Pier
Walking times between stations
London Bridge to Blackfriars: 20 mins London Bridge to Borough: 12 mins London Bridge to Southwark: 16 mins Southwark to Blackfriars: 10 mins Southwark to Borough: 12 mins Borough to Blackfriars: 17 mins
Millennium Bridge
Old Union Yard Arches
The Low Line
The first new sections of the Low Line opened at Old Union Yard Arches and Flat Iron Square and complement established hubs located at Borough Market, Maltby Street Market, and Spa Terminus.
Look out for the blue Low Line markers and follow the route.
A CONNECTED SIDEBankside is an area of exchange, connecting places and people in a central neighbourhood.Five of London’s bridges lead to Bankside including London’s earliest and most recent. Railway viaducts connect major transport hubs – London Bridge, Blackfriars, Southwark and Borough. Bankside’s arteries make it a place of exchange of ideas, skills and talent.
An integral part of the urban landscape are the Victorian railway arches which form the Low Line, meandering through Bankside into neighbouring areas.
The Low Line will connect diverse neighbourhoods and communities, creating new hubs of industry, jobs, creativity and entertainment along its course. It celebrates the character and infrastructure of the railway viaduct, promoting diverse and sustainable models of usage in these spaces.
Flat Iron Square
Bankside is a long-standing home of essential industry.Forming the Thames waterfront, Bankside housed the industries that oiled the wheels of global maritime trade routes launched from Bankside’s wharves and jetties.
Ghost signs are a visible insight into Bankside’s commercial heritage and the architecture of the neighbourhood reveals layers of industrial history, from Victorian warehousing to The Hop Exchange, Bankside Power Station and mighty railway arches.
Today, talent in Bankside powers the new economy – from digital tech makers, architects and designers, to Borough Market’s artisan producers.
The Hop Exchange
AN INDUSTRIOUS SIDE
On Bear Gardens, just off the riverside, you’ll see a slab of flint called The Ferryman’s Seat. It harks back to when the River Thames was heaving with boat traffic and ferrymen were in high demand taking City-dwellers back and forth.
Tate Modern
Embassy Tea Ghost Sign
Borough Market
‘Drag Queens’ derived from Bankside. In Elizabethan England women were forbidden from performing on stage and female roles were played by men. Those men that became adept at moving round the stage in women’s hooped dresses became known as ‘queens of the drag’.
Bankside’s brewing heritage is all around us. Barclay and Perkins Anchor Brewery, which uniquely took its water direct from the Thames, became the largest in the world by the early 19th century, later merging with its rival brewer Courage in 1955. The Courage brewery ghost sign can still be seen on Park Street. Not far away on Southwark Street, the 1867 Hop Exchange was built to provide a single market place for hop traders.
Tate Modern is the only building in London to be opened twice by Queen Elizabeth II – first in 1963 as Bankside Power Station and then again as Tate Modern in 2000 within the same landmark building.
The bombed church of All Hallows in Copperfield Street was home to the tiny Blackwing recording studio. Depeche Mode recorded its seminal album Speak & Spell there in the 1980s, and Yazoo also recorded here.
The George Inn on Borough High Street is a National Trust site, the last remaining galleried inn in London.
Bankside has London’s first bridge (London Bridge) and its most recent (the Millennium Bridge).
The Clink Prison in Bankside was burnt down twice. The first time was during the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, the second time was centuries later during the 1780 Gordon riots.
FEED YOUR CURIOUS SIDE
Medieval literature talks of a great market town in 1014 in Southwark, so it is believed that Borough Market has existed to some extent for around 1000 years.
Social
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Find out more
For more information about the role of Better Bankside, visit:
betterbankside.co.uk.
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