On this day 110 years ago - Southwark & Bermondsey Recorder, 7 October 1910. A few snippets to follow.

Notice of forthcoming talk by Alfred Salter on Socialism, Communism, Anarchism

Pickfords van stolen in Southwark

One firm advertising in 1910 and still very much on the local scene

Coal merchants in Shad Thames

Article about the search for the site of Shakespeare’s Globe

110 years ago Borough Polytechnic @lsbu was hosting a series of public lectures on women in industry

Public amusements in the Old Kent Road

Advert for drapers in Borough High Street

Wheelwrights

Need a bailiff?

14 year old boy killed at Stamford Street printing works

Report from Tooley Street fire station ( @BeyondBrigade)

Southwark councillors dismiss complaints about chiming of bell in St George’s Circus clock tower - ‘no worse than Big Ben’

110 years ago Southwark councillors were receiving complaints about the state of the road surface in Rockingham Street

Borough man facing trial for bigamy

Pickpockets in The Cut

This week at the Elephant & Castle theatre

Sentenced to 12 months’ hard labour for assaulting the Porter at Tanner Street workhouse

Reward for local man who rescued boy from drowning in Thames at Albert Embankment

A disorderly meeting of Bermondsey Borough Council.