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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 19h
By the canal in Ath, Belgium. A memorial to Southwark-born Eddie Sullivan. One of 14 children. Killed on the eve of Armistice Day.
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 23h
From Waterloo SE1 to Waterloo Belgium
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 14/10/2026
LSBU chancellor Sir Simon Hughes @shwh83.bsky.social is hosting a free public lecture by former prisons minister Lord Timpson on Thursday www.se1.news/whatson/#thu...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 14/10/2026
Tower Bridge - overnight closures to traffic and pedestrians each night this week www.citybridgefoundation.org.uk/what-we-do/b...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 11/10/2026
The fish & chip shop in London Road has recently become a Lebanese Grill
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 11/10/2026
Details of the proposed community programmes (including for babies, toddlers, senior citizens and the Latin American community) to be offered by the five-screen Everyman cinema in the development on the Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre site
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 09/10/2026
The Santander Cycles docking station at London Bridge named 'Duke Street Hill' (actually in Tooley Street) is to be relocated to a new site near the Shipwrights Arms to allow redevelopment of Colechurch House planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-appli...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 09/10/2026
Saturday's Palestine Coalition march route includes Westminster Bridge, York Road and Waterloo Bridge news.met.police.uk/news/met-ann...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 08/10/2026
View from Elephant & Castle railway station platform 1 - April 2024 - April 2025 - April 2026 - October 2026
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 27/09/2026
Today - it's the annual Sheep Drive and Livery Fair on Southwark Bridge www.se1.news/whatson/#sun...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 25/09/2026
Waterloo Bridge closed on Sunday morning due to Vitality London 10,000 taking place on the Strand www.londonmarathonevents.co.uk/london-10000
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 24/09/2026
Tower Bridge is due to lift twice this evening for the first of this autumn's visits of the Paddle Steamer Waverley www.towerbridge.org.uk/bridge-lifts
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 24/09/2026
Waterloo Road remains closed for gas repairs
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 23/09/2026
Thursday is final chance to comment on proposal to relocate London Bridge Post Office into the former Black Katz estate agents office at 78 Borough High Street (next to Tas Cafe) The new PO would be open 7 days and have longer weekday hours (8-6) www.postofficeviews.co.uk/national-con...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 23/09/2026
Apparently it takes up to 3 and a half months to clean all the windows at One Blackfriars, according to this video from the man with the contract (tho the title's wrong - it's not an office tower, of course) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY1T...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 23/09/2026
If you've ever wondered why (since about 2018) there are level crossing-style 'wig-wag' signals on Bermondsey Street where it passes under London Bridge Station, someone has sent an FOI request to Network Rail www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/wig_...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 23/09/2026
This Friday - a chance to visit Lambeth Palace for the last of the year's charity open days www.se1.news/whatson/#fri...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 18/09/2026
This weekend is the last chance to take part in TfL's consultation on plans to curtail the 42 bus route in Tooley Street, reducing the number of buses crossing Tower Bridge haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/42-bus-toole...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 18/09/2026
Saturday: the 20th Bermondsey Street Festival www.se1.news/whatson/#sat...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 17/09/2026
Violet Alice Tritton - commemorated with a fountain on the St Saviour's Estate in Bermondsey - died on this day 70 years ago www.londonremembers.com/subjects/vio...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 13/09/2026
This afternoon the South Bank and Waterloo Eco Fest takes place at St John's Waterloo www.se1.news/whatson/#sun...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 10/09/2026
From 4pm - second of three public exhibitions of plans for the redevelopment of Elizabeth House in Waterloo ... but is this scheme any more likely to come to fruition than the multitude of previous proposals? www.se1.news/whatson/#thu...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 10/09/2026
Prices for 'Elephant Quarter' build-to-rent flats (ex Shopping Centre) were pulled from website after adverse publicity. New monthly rent now revealed. ➡️ Studios was £2610 now £2700 ➡️ 1-bed was £3100 now £2880 ➡️ 2-bed was £3810 now £3465 ➡️ 3-bed was £5010 now £4555 elephantquarter.com
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 09/09/2026
Tonight Southwark councillors are considering Berkeley Homes' application to slash the affordable housing provision in their Borough Triangle scheme (aka the Mercato Metropolitano site) Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHUL...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 08/09/2026
Ofsted has published a report on Notre Dame Catholic Girls' School in St George's Road reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/23/...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 08/09/2026
The latest plans (in a multi-decade saga) for the redevelopment of Elizabeth House next to Waterloo Station go on public show at St John's Waterloo this afternoon (Picture from 2005) www.se1.news/whatson/#tue...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 08/09/2026
The Shipwrights Arms in Tooley Street is one of 10 pubs acquired by Fuller's in a £35 million deal www.eqs-news.com/news/uk-regu...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 07/09/2026
A dramatic comedy about the London Necropolis Railway is coming to the @waterlooeast.bsky.social theatre in November waterlooeast.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 05/09/2026
Sunday — The Big Half Marathon. Tower Bridge will be closed to vehicles between 4am and 2pm. The bridge will remain open to pedestrians and as a visitor attraction.
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 03/09/2026
Sunset from Blackfriars Bridge
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 03/09/2026
If you’ve missed Konditor since its Borough Market shop closed, its new outlet in Joiner Street at London Bridge Station is now open
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 02/09/2026
First mince pie sighting of the season. Sainsbury’s Local, Westminster Bridge Road
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 02/09/2026
Look out for the Doggett's Coat & Badge Pageant and Wager on the Thames today pla.co.uk/notices/M70-26
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 28/08/2026
Times Radio's snazzy new studio using quite an old image of the London skyline, from before the Shell Centre redevelopment on the South Bank
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 27/08/2026
Las Iguanas next to the Royal Festival Hall has closed down. Dishoom lined up to replace them according to planning submissions to Lambeth Council.
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 26/08/2026
Broken down bus at St George’s Circus means long tailback of buses stuck in the London Road contra flow
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 25/08/2026
Oliver Bonas to open at the Elephant & Castle on the former shopping centre site
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 24/08/2026
Met: "On Sunday local officers witnessed an ice cream van drive onto the public footpath on Belvedere Road. This dangerous driving offence together w trading without a licence resulted in officers seizing the vehicle + issuing community protection warning" www.metengage.co.uk/Alerts/A/487...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 20/08/2026
Today is the 37th anniversary of the Marchioness disaster on the River Thames near Southwark Bridge. A memorial to the 51 people who died can be found at Southwark Cathedral where an act of remembrance is held each year
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 16/08/2026
For the next few weeks, Southwark tube station will be closed on weekdays between the morning and evening rush hours. Directions to Blackfriars tube aren't quite right ... you have to cross the river first, and the mainline station's not set up for access to tube from south side
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 13/08/2026
The former Ping Pong next to the Royal Festival Hall is becoming a branch of Caravan
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 12/08/2026
Northern line entrance to Elephant & Castle tube closed due to water ingress in the lift shaft
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 11/08/2026
Free open-air screening of Wicked Sing-Along this evening just by London Bridge City Pier [screenings relocated from The Scoop this year due to redevelopment of old City Hall] www.se1.news/whatson/#tue...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 11/08/2026
Danish homeware chain Søstrene Grene (current London branches at Tottenham Court Road, Argyll Street & Canary Wharf) is opening in one of the most prominent spots at the redeveloped Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre site planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-appli...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 06/08/2026
Northern line ticket hall at Elephant & Castle tube is exit only due to a lift fault.
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 30/07/2026
This week the first business at the new Elephant & Castle shopping centre site redevelopment opened its doors to customers - coffee and matcha chain Blank Street
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 23/07/2026
Blackfriars Road - advance warning of closure for crane operation
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 19/07/2026
This morning, Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme featured XO Barbers, the social enterprise which trainers prisoners to cut hair and repair bikes. Find them in the former Sons of Temperance Friendly Society building in Blackfriars Road www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... #bbcbh
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 19/07/2026
This afternoon - free jazz and salsa in Bermondsey Square www.se1.news/whatson/#sun...
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 16/07/2026
Screwfix in the Old Kent Road is closing down this week, just a year after it opened.
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