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You can find the Fashion and Textile Museum in Southwark. It was opened in 2003 and embraces unique exhibits describing various textiles, revolutionary fashion, and jewellery design.
Every Londoner knows that Borough Market is one of the largest and oldest in the city. However, it’s not widely known that there is a special bell located in Middle Road in the market. Once the current market was founded in 1857, a bailiff rang a bell to announce the start and the end of the day’s trading. It’s not used anymore, but it is still out there.
If you find yourself in the Bermondsey area, be sure to visit St Katharine Docks and take a twilight stroll alongside the yachts. Opened over 180 years ago, this place is a still working pier and a little oasis of calm and beauty.
Southwark village has been an important junction of roads for the Romans. That was exactly where they constructed a bridge across Thames that helped them get to London.