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description of the sport as a “rude and dirty pastime” and in 1682 the last bear-garden
was closed down. Most famous of all, however, were Bankside's theatres (see p.228).
Tate Modern
Bankside • Daily 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat until 10pm • Free; special exhibitions from £10 •
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Southwark or
Blackfriars
Tate Modern
is an absolute must for anyone visiting or living in London. Originally
designed as an oil-fired power station by Giles Gilbert Scott, this austere, brick-built
“cathedral of power” was closed down in 1981 and reopened as a modern art gallery
in 2000. The masterful conversion, by the Swiss duo Herzog & de Meuron, has left
plenty of the original industrial feel, while providing wonderfully light and spacious
galleries to show off Tate's impressive collection of international twentieth-century
artists, including the likes of Monet, Duchamp, Moore, Matisse, Mondrian, Picasso,
Pollock, Rothko and Warhol.
Tate Modern receives over five million visitors a year, more than double what was
envisaged. To alleviate this, the Tate has started to expand to the south of the power
station. First came the
Tanks,
a new rough-edged space for live work, video installations
and performance art, in the power station's subterranean oil tanks. To follow, in 2016,
is the Tate's major
new extension
, also designed by Herzog & de Meuron, a distorted
prism of latticed bricks rising to 215ft above the oil tanks.
Tate's
permanent collection
dates back to 1900, but the curators have eschewed a
chronological approach, and gone instead for hanging works according to themes and
-isms. So in among all the attention-grabbing conceptual stuff, you'll find some early
Shadwell
SOUTHWARK
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St George
in-the-East
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St Paul
Free Trade
Wharf
Shadwell
Basin
Tobacco
Dock
Limekiln
Dock
Pumping Station
(The Wapping Project)
St Katharine
Docks
H
Pumphouse
Museum
St Peter
WAPPING
Nelson
House
Wapping
St John
Hilton
Docklands
Pier
Wapping Pier
Head
Surrey
Water
Design
Museum
Execution
Dock
Wapping
Police
Station
Russia
Dock
Woodland
Brunel
Museum
St Mary's
The Angel
Rotherhithe
Finnish Mission
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Norwegian
Seaman's Church
BERMONDSEY
Canada Water
Bermondsey
Canada
Water
Greenland
Pier
Southwark
Park
ROTHERHITHE
Swedish
Seamen's
Church
Surrey Quays
CAFÉS
Bar Tozino
El Vergel
José
PUBS
The Mayflower
Royal Oak
The Woolpack
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ACCOMMODATION
Great Dover Street
Apartments
Thameside YHA
SHOPS
Bermondsey Antique
Market
Maltby Street Market
RESTAURANTS
40 Maltby Street
Village East
Zucca
CLUBS
Coronet
Corsica Studios
Ministry of Sound
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