Heritage and Arts
Fri 17 Apr
|Southwark Underground Station
Mayflower in Bankside
An important area for the separatist movement. It was here that the London underground Church was established and religious dissidents were imprisoned. Outside the jurisdiction of the City, this was also a place for inns, theatres and brothels. A strange mix of moral and immoral people of London.
Time and Location
17 Apr 2020, 14:00 – 16:00
Southwark Underground Station, 68-70 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8JZ
About The Event
The area has always been notorious for it’s scandalous entertainment and and non conformist views within sight of the City but out of it’s thoughts. Access was relatively easy from the City. There may have been only one bridge, but there were Watermen who would carry passengers across the Thames. We should be able to see one of the seats where they would have waited for a return fare.
This is an area of brothels or ‘stews’, some even licenced by the local bishop, and where ‘outcasts’, including prostitutes were buried in this lawless corner of London.
William Shakespeare would have known the area well, as this was the ‘Theatreland’ of the 16th Century. Theatres fell into the ‘necessary but nasty’ category and many grew up alongside the Thames here, within easy reach of the City. The Globe, Rose and Hope Theatres were here and today we can see a…
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