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The ‘Southwark Needle’ and the Grisly History of London Bridge

At the Southwark end of London Bridge, just where it meets Duke Street Hill, is a 16m tall spike.

This was designed by Eric Parry Architects and installed in 1999. It is made up of 25 portland stone blocks weighing 11 tonnes in total, and ...


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Cross Bones Graveyard and the Outcast Dead

Across Southwark Street, a few hundred metres from the insanely busy Borough Market, is a little oasis of calm and mortality called the Crossbones Graveyard.

Truth be told this is simply a corner plot that had been abandoned behind high brick walls for a number of years. OS maps of c1900 show it as the site of St Saviour’s Parish School (separate buildings for boys ...


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The stuffaboutlondon Review of 2025

And a very happy new year to everyone reading this. Time for my traditional look back at the posts that have had the most visits over the past 12 months. Click on any link to see that post.

Henry VIII’s Wine Cellar under Whitehall (al...


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More Neo-Gothic Splendour: the Buxton Memorial

In Victoria Tower Gardens, the little public park that runs from Parliament to Lambeth Bridge, stands a very ornate Victorian drinking fountain (now, sadly, disconnected from the water supply) known as the Buxton Memorial Drinking Fountain.

This is an octagonal structure in limestone, marble and granite, about 4m wide and with an extraordinary canopy, a timber-frame...


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Landseer’s Lions in Trafalgar Square

Just as everyone ignores the warning on packets of cotton buds not to stick them in your ear, so the signs forbidding climbing on the Trafalgar Square lions are more honoured in the breach than the observance.

There are four of these rather magnificent bronze beasts, aligned to the cardinal points of the compass, at the base of Nelson’s Column. They are the work of ...


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