Results tagged “Rotherhithe”

Commuters in Rotherhithe are facing the temporary loss of Thames Clippers services from Greenland Pier at the end of the month.

Up to 600 passengers use the Clippers service from the pier every day, but Southwark Council - who own the pier - has served notice terminating Clippers' use of the pier from February 28.

Mayor Of London Boris Johnson has said that the new tunnel for road traffic under the Thames in east London will be built within the next 10 years.

He will outline the timescale and capacity for a link between Greenwich peninsula and Silvertown at a dinner in the City this evening.

A Paralympic hopeful could miss out on valuable training time just before the competition if plans to allow hundreds of yachts into a Rotherhithe dock are given the go-ahead.

Southwark Council is due to make a decision on the application by Sail Greenwich for Greenland Dock at a meeting at the end of November.

A motorcyclist has died following a collision with a car in Rotherhithe.

The 67-year-old man whose identity is awaiting confirmation died on Saturday (October 8) after being readmitted to hospital more than a month after the crash on September 2.

The closure of a Thames Clippers pier vital for many Wharf commuters has provoked a leading London Assembly member into accusing Boris Johnson of not taking river transport seriously.

Leader of the Liberal Democrats at City Hall Caroline Pidgeon said the refurbishment of Greenland Pier in Rotherhithe, due to start in November for up to three months, could hit the public hard.

While Peckham has something of an insalubrious reputation now, the haunt of Delboy has a rich and long history.

The district south of Rotherhithe was noted in the Domesday book as "Pechecha", an Anglo Saxon word meaning village among the hills (in this case, referring to the hills of Honor Oak, Nunhead and Plow Garlick).

An award-winning museum in Rotherhithe is closing after the council snatched away its entire budget.

In a move which has seen local authorities across the country slash museum funding, The Pumphouse Heritage Museum and Nature Reserve was left to rely on trust funding.

Nelson House in Rotherhithe was probably not named after the famous admiral. Instead its origins lie in the 1740s when it was built for one of the shipbuilding owners linked to the nearby Nelson Dock.

The front entrance of Nelson House faces Rotherhithe Street - rather than the Thames - suggesting that, in an earlier life, it led to the shipyard.

In 1695, John Howland, a wealthy landowner in south London, saw his daughter and heiress Elizabeth marry Wriothesley Russell, Marquess of Tavistock - who was only 15 at the time.

The Russell family quickly made use of Howland's dowry and obtained parliamentary permission to build a vast dock at Rotherhithe with the family mansion at one end.

Charles Dickens has Abel Magwitch escaping from a prison ship in the Thames Estuary in Great Expectations.

These hulks were home to up to 200,000 inmates from age eight to 84, during the 19th century with redundant naval ships moored at Deptford and Woolwich.

Docklands Business Club has announced its plans for this year's annual awards.

The group, working alongside East London Chamber of Commerce, will be holding the black tie event at the Hilton Hotel in Rotherhithe on September 22.

After two and a half years in the transport wilderness, East London businesses are celebrating the imminent return of a key train link.

Transport for London has announced plans to reopen the East London line in the next few weeks - two months ahead of schedule - following a £1billion investment programme.

An 18-year-old who was carrying a gun in Rotherhithe has been given an indefinite prison sentence.

Rosca Onya, of no fixed address, was in a minicab when police stopped the vehicle on William V Street last August.

Fancy getting out of the house this weekend and taking a peek round someone else's pad?

Well, why not take advantage of the annual Open House weekend where hundreds of buildings across the capital throw open their doors for free in a celebration of the best of British architecture.

WORK has begun on one of London’s largest regeneration schemes which will see around 2,000 new homes built on the Rotherhithe peninsula.

But the company behind the first phase of the redevelopment is facing a rocky time thanks to the credit crunch.