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unusual facts about The George Inn, Southwark


The George Inn

The George Inn, Southwark, a public house established in the medieval period


Archbishop of Southwark

However, on the same day the diocese of Southwark was elevated to an archdiocese when the Ecclesiastical province of Southwark was established; from 1850 the diocese had been part of the Province of Westminster.

Beer style

When this trend came to Britain and brewers of beer in Southwark, London, started to take sales away from the traditional brewers of unhopped ale, there were complaints and protests.

Borough Road railway station

Borough Road railway station was a railway station in Borough Road, Southwark, south London, England, on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, which was first opened in 1864 on the railway's City Branch, and which crossed the River Thames and ran up through Blackfriars to terminate in the City of London.

Chapman Rocks

The feature is named after Thomas Chapman, English trunk-maker of Southwark who in 1795 discovered a method of processing fur seal skins for use in the hat trade, thus initiating the industry in London.

Cliff L'Aimable

Cliff L'Aimable (born 1961:Mauritius ) is a Chartered Surveyor specialising in UK Building Regulations was associated to a public building control body as an early authorising building regulation approval signatory to landmark building developments within the regeneration programme being administered by the London Borough of Southwark, such as the Shard London Bridge ( aka. London Bridge Tower ).

Colombians in the United Kingdom

Despite this, the largest numbers can be found in the boroughs of Lambeth, Islington, Southwark and Camden.

David Kirkaldy

The machine still exists in the old test house at Southwark (now the Kirkaldy Testing Museum), together with other equipment he developed.

Diocese of Rochester

Since 1994 the Bishop of Fulham (currently The Right Reverend Jonathan Baker, since 2013) has provided 'alternative episcopal oversight' in the diocese (along with London and Southwark) to those parishes which cannot in conscience accept the sacramental ministry of bishops who have participated in the ordination of women.

Fyfe Dangerfield

He composed music for the play, Howl's Moving Castle, based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones, which is to be performed in London at Southwark Playhouse in the winter 2011 - 2012.

George Odger

He was invited to stand in the 1870 Southwark by-election, the first ever candidate to stand for Labour, by Francis William Soutter and Will Stafford.

James Watney

On 15 October 1829, at St. Saviour's Church, Southwark (now Southwark Cathedral), James Watney married Rebecca Spurrell, elder daughter of the brewer and hop merchant James Spurrell, of Park Street, Southwark, who was employed by Barclay & Perkins's Anchor Brewery, Southwark.

John Rolls of The Hendre

John Rolls of The Hendre (20 October 1776 – 31 January 1837) was a native of Bermondsey, in Southwark, London, Surrey, England.

King's Stairs Gardens

The park was given Village Green status in March 2012 by Southwark Council under the Commons Act 2006, a move which campaigners hope will thwart any future development.

Lionel Ford

Ford married in 1904 Mary Catherine Talbot, daughter of Edward Stuart Talbot, who was successively Bishop of Rochester, Southwark and Winchester.

Manciple

The title still survives in some Oxford and Cambridge colleges, at the Charterhouse in the City of London, and in the name of Manciple Street in the borough of Southwark, London SE1.

Maria Abdy

Although her mother was from a dissenting family, in 1821 she married John Channing Abdy, a clergyman who succeeded his father as rector of St John's, Southwark.

Murder of Julia Martha Thomas

H. Such, a printer and publisher in Southwark, issued a ballad entitled "Murder and Mutilation of an Old Lady near Barnes" shortly after Kate Webster had been arrested, set to the tune of "Just Before the Battle, Mother", a popular song of the American Civil War.

New Kent Road

The last building on the north side of New Kent Road is St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School on land given by Lord LLangatock (of the Rolls family) to the ancient Southwark grammar school foundation which was required to provide a girls school to supplement its teaching of boys.

Pauline Henriques

Pauline and her siblings are mentioned in an exhibition about Jamacian families and their roles in the UK during the Second World War in Southwark.

Playing company

Theatres proliferated, especially (though not exclusively) in neighborhoods outside the city's walls and the Corporation's control — in Shoreditch to the north, or the Bankside and Paris Garden in Southwark, on the southern bank of the River Thames: the Curtain, the Rose, the Swan, the Fortune, the Globe, the Blackfrairs — a famous roster.

Political finance

Moreover all modern democracies operate a variety of permanent party organizations, e.g. the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee in the U.S. or the Conservative Central Office and the Labour headquarters ("John Smith House", "Millbank Tower") in the U.K.

Prologue and Tale of Beryn

The Host suggests that they spend the day in pleasure, but to rise early the next morning for the return journey to Southwark (191–230).

Richard Moth

In 2001, upon the elevation of the Vicar General, Mgr Canon John Hine, to be an Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, Mgr Moth was named Vicar General and Chancellor of the Archdiocese.

Robert Acton

Sir Robert Acton (by 1497 - 28/29 September 1558), of Elmley Lovett and Ribbesford, Worcestershire and Southwark, Surrey, was an English politician.

Roman roads in Britain

Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales almost certainly used Watling Street to travel from Southwark to Canterbury.

Southwark

Harvard University maintains a link, having paid for a memorial chapel within Southwark Cathedral (his family's parish church), and where its UK-based alumni hold services.

Southwark parks and open spaces

Southwark is a riverside borough, and one of the largest open spaces is the River Thames itself, forming the northern boundary of the borough.

The George Inn, Norton St Philip

The building has been used as a setting for films such as The Remains of the Day, Tom Jones, and The Canterbury Tales, as well as in the television adaptations of Persuasion by Jane Austen and Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.

The Tabard

The Tabard, an inn that stood on the east side of Borough High Street in Southwark, was established in 1307, when the abbot of Hyde purchased the land to construct a hostel for himself and his brethren, when business took them to London, as well as an inn to accommodate the numerous pilgrims headed on annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

Thomas Wijck

Thomas Wijck painted a View of London before the fire, and another of the north bank of the Thames, from Southwark, exhibiting the mansions of the nobility in the Strand.

Tom Attenborough

Rhapsody of Words presented a revival of Conor McPherson's play Port Authority at the Southwark Playhouse in 2012, starring Ardal O'Hanlon, John Rogan and Andrew Nolan.

Whitman, Philadelphia

According to the 2000 Census, Whitman has 26,300 inhabitants (combined with Queen Village and Southwark).

Wood Street Compter

During the closure of the compters, debtors were held in prisons in Southwark, including the Marshalsea and King's Bench Prisons, Borough Compter and Horsemonger Lane Gaol.


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