Description: 01:22 – The walk starts at London Bridge Station, London’s oldest surviving railway station.
01:38 London Bridge was originally built at the lowest crossing of the Thames, older than Tower Bridge and until 18th century the terminus for all roads from the South to London.
2:30 – London Bridge station was completed in 1836 and in 1838 the line to Greenwich, 3.75 miles was competed across a viaduct using 16 million bricks, and is still in use. Possibly the world’s largest brick structure.
2:54 – Guy’s Hospital, St Thomas’s Church and some Georgian houses.
3:15 – John Keats lived here while he studied in 1816. Images of The Shard.
3:58 – Great Maze Pond, whose name derives from the house of the 12th century Bishop of Battle Abbey.
4:22 – Thomas Heatherwick’s cladding on Guy’s Tower.
4.:41 – Guy’s Hospital Courtyard, 1831 with its statue of Thomas Guy, born in Bermondsey, a bookseller who gave money to open the hospital for the poor in 1725.
6:00 – Guy’s Chapel
6:40 – Guy’s Colonnade
7:20 – Kings College Medical School
7:45 – St Thomas’ Street
8:40 – House which was once part of St Thomas Hospital, second oldest hospital in London, started 1106, moved to this site in 1212.
09:29 – Collegiate House, dates from 1700.
09:55 – Old Operating Theatre Museum
10:12 – Borough High Street – the Post Office used to be the South Wing of St Thomas Hospital.
10:55 – Kings Head Yard – once full of coaching inns.
12:00 – White Hart Yard
12:36 – 67 Borough High Street – Hop Factors and Exchange.
13:06 – George Yard and Inn only surviving galleried inn in London.
13.44 – Talbot Yard – the Tabbard Inn was here where Chaucer met the Canterbury pilgrims.
14:33 – 103 Borough High Street – John Harvard House, where he lived before emigrating to America.
15:06 – Newcomen Street
15:30 – 70 Newcomen Street – example of a wharf crane
16:03 – 65 Newcomen Street – Kings Arms Pub.
16:30 – Site of Marshalsea Prison where Dicken’s father was held.
16:45 – Chapel Court
17:45 – Blue Eyed Maid Pub at 173, Borough High Street.
17:20 – 211 Borough High Street, John Harvard Library.
17:52 – Maya House with blue men sculptures.
18:35 – Angel Place site of Kings Bench Prison, later Marshalsea Prison was moved there.
21:10 – Mortuary chapels in Angel Place.
20:40 – Tennis Street/Long Lane/Tabard Street (previously Kent Street)
21:29 – Church of St George the Martyr (also known as Little Dorrit’s church from Dickens)
22:25 – Edmund Gunther was rector of the church 1615-1626, inventor of the slide rule.
22:46 – Gunther was contemporary with Edward Cooker – wrote a book on arithmetic and had a school in the church.
23:40 – Little Dorrit Court
23:56 – Red Cross Way/ Red Cross Gardens
24:35 – 61 Union Street – commercial premises of around 1800.
25:30 – 47 Union Street – 1909 Shaftesbury Society Building, originally Ragged School.
25:45 – commemorative plaque on Red Cross Way for Cross Bones Graveyard.
27:18 – Maidstone Buildings Mews
28:11 – Southwark Street – built 1862 by Bazalgette.
29:02 – Southwark Street – Hop Exchange Building
29:39 – Stoney Street/Borough Market
30:53 – Southwark Cathedral
33:32 – Montague Place
34:01 – Mudlark Pub
34:17 – History of London Bridge and its builders.
36:11 – Glazier’s Hall and Nancy’s Steps reference to Nancy from Oliver Twist.
36:44 – Tooley Street/St Olaf’s House originally a major trading house for refridgerated foods from New Zealand.
37:48 – Hays Wharf/Cotton Wharf – site of the great Tooley Street fire in 19th century.
38:12 – Duke Street Hill
38:52 – Two London Bridge – Hibernian Chambers, above Glazier’s Hall built by William Cubitt.
39:13 – Bridge House at 4 Borough High Street – originally the first railway hotel in the world.
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