Bermondsey

The name Bermondsey comes from the Anglo-Saxon phrase for ‘island of Beornmund’. Beornmund was probably the lord who owned the land well over a thousand years ago. In the 18th century Bermondsey became known as London’s Larder, the centre of food importing and processing, a role it played until the 1970s. Today the wharfs and dock have been converted to shops, restaurants and museums.



HAY’S GALLERIA Tooley Street SE1 Tel: 020 7940 7770
London Bridge London Bridge 21 35 40 47 P3 P11
Hay’s Galleria is a place to eat and shop in a spectacular conversion of one of London’s most famous wharfs. Hay’s Wharf is in the area known as London’s Larder, which stored three quarters of the butter, bacon, cheese and canned meat needed for London. The Hay’s Wharf Company pioneered cold storage in the 1860s, importing butter and cheese. Opened in 1651, Hay’s Wharf is the oldest wharf in London, though the present building dates from 1931.
www.haysgalleria.co.uk

LONDON GLASSBLOWING WORKSHOP Weston Street SE1 Tel: 020 7403 2800
Borough, London Bridge London Bridge 35 40 42 188 199 P3
The Leather Market now houses the London Glassblowing Workshop, which has an international reputation and continues a long tradition of glassblowing in Southwark. But it was originally a place for trading leather. Bermondsey was the chief area for the manufacture of leather from the Middle Ages. Animal skins were available from butchers and the tanning process was made easy by the water supply from Bermondsey’s many rivers. The Leather Market was built in 1833.

BERMONDSEY STREET CONSERVATION AREA Bermondsey Street, SE1
London Bridge, Bermondsey London Bridge 21 35 40 47 P3 P11
Bermondsey was once the heart of London’s food processing area, close to the docks of Pool of London. Many household names in the food industry had factories in Bermondsey – Peak Frean’s biscuits, Sarson’s Vinegar and Courage Breweries – earning the area its name and reputation as the ‘Larder of London’. The old industries have gradually declined leaving a legacy of fine old warehouses and industrial spaces, now home to restaurants, galleries and studios.

NEW CALEDONIAN ANTIQUES MARKET Bermondsey Square, Tower Bridge Road, SE1
Tower Bridge, London Bridge, Bermondsey London Bridge 142 47 78 188 P11
New Caledonian Antiques Market is the only street market dedicated to antiques. It was founded in 1855 by Prince Albert and was originally located in Islington. It was relocated to Southwark after the Second World War and rapidly became the largest antiques market in the world.

Click here for a brief history of Bermondsey

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