ROTHERHITHE VILLAGE and SURREY QUAYS

Actor. Born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in St Olave's Hospital, Rotherhithe. His career started in repertory theatre and television, eventually getting his big break in the film 'Zulu'. He went on to star in many more films including 'The Ipcress File', 'Alfie' and 'The Italian Job'. Famous for the catch phrase 'Not a lot of people know that', which he never actually said. (It was supposedly coined by Peter Sellars in an impersonation of him). Knighted in 2000.

Before he was 10 the family were moved from war-torn Bermondsey to Walworth, first in Urlwin Street and then Marshall Gardens. The later home was a post-war pre-fab at Elephant and Castle but has been demolished and even the street no longer exists. He went to John Ruskin School then Hackney Downs Grocer’s School and then after a year, Wilson’s Grammar School.

“These almshouses were erected under the will of the late Charles John Peele, partner in the firm of Brandram Bros. and Co. of this parish. Also of Childown Hall, Chertsey, Surrey.
To the memory of his mother, Helen Peele A.D 1901. ”

King George’s Field is a memorial to King George V (1865 – 1936) in the heart of the Docklands, and one of only two such sites in Southwark.
The park grew in three stages. In 1938, Bermondsey Borough Council used a grant of £500 from the King George’s Fields Foundation to convert a piece of land close to All Saints Church into a simple, hard-surfaced recreation area for children. This was a small but popular addition to the church’s existing public garden, which had seats and formal bedding set around pathways in a pleasing oval shape. 

Cited by LONDON REMEMBERS "The first bomb of the London blitz landed on the Dockyard Offices on the periphery of what is now the car park for Surrey Quays shopping centre at Canada Water.”

Citing PORT CITIES: “ "... a firestorm in the docks that blazed from end to end for a whole week. ... A third of the warehouses and transit sheds were destroyed. The inferno at the docks eventually spread to cover 100 hectares (250 acres). Firemen from London and as far away as Bristol fought more than 40 separate fires. The largest fire at the Surrey Docks required 300 pumps to contain it."

The lake is named after the former Canada Dock, of which Canada Water is the surviving northern third, and which was mainly used by ships from Canada. As with much of the Docklands, the Surrey Commercial Docks closed in the 1970s. During the 1980s, the London Docklands Development Corporationtook over, and invested heavily in the redevelopment of the area. About half of Canada Dock was infilled and the   Shopping Centre built on top of it; the remainder was converted into the present lake and wildlife refuge. An ornamental canal, Albion Channel, was created (through the site of the now filled-in Albion Dock) linking Canada Water to Surrey Water, with the spoil used to create Stave Hill in nearby Russia Dock Woodland.

The street food specialist Kerb and music curator the Broadwick Group will launch a new concept next week, bringing together restaurant brands, live jazz and a focus on sustainable farming to a former waterside retail unit.

Sustainability will be a huge focus too, with Harvest London installing the city’s biggest commercial indoor vertical farm in the space. As well as providing fresh produce for the Corner Corner food hall and all-day cafe, the farm will supply other London restaurants in an effort to build a hyper-local food system and host interactive experiences for locals.

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