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CITY HALL AND TOWER BRIDGE
Southwark
In Tudor and Stuart London, the chief reason for crossing the Thames,
to what is now Southwark, was to visit the disreputable Bankside
entertainment district around the south end of London Bridge. Four
hundred years on, Londoners have rediscovered the habit of heading
for the area, thanks to the tra c-free riverside path and a wealth of top
attractions, with the charge led by the mighty Tate Modern. Tourist spots
now pepper the riverside from Blackfriars Bridge to Bermondsey from the
remarkable reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to the sublime
view from the Shard. East of Tower Bridge is the thriving little warehouse
development of Butler's Wharf, and further east still, Rotherhithe clings
onto its old seafaring identity despite the demise of its once extensive
enclosed docks.
 
 
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