Thursday 9 September 2021
News & features published on 9 September 2021
SE1's newest school drops Aske from name over slavery link
SE1's newest school - the Haberdashers' Aske's Borough Academy in Southwark Bridge Road - has dropped Aske from its name after controversy over benefactor Robert Aske's links with the slave trade.
Tweets on 9 September 2021
RT @LFBSouthwark: As part of #EmergencyServicesDay we were honoured to welcome some distinguished guests to Dockhead fire station today, in…
SE1's newest school - the Haberdashers' Aske's Borough Academy in Southwark Bridge Road - has dropped Aske from its… https://t.co/PDYRFCo8rD
Elephant & Castle 30 years ago - by @Peter_Marshall https://t.co/HJ02nGIROz
A 1991 view of the paper merchants' building at Hopton Street / Bankside. By @Peter_Marshall. Now the open space be… https://t.co/SrjhBOYBNR
RT @HE_Archive: In 1861 the gravest fire in London since the Great Fire took hold in waterfront warehouses in Tooley St, Southwark- it call…
RT @HE_Archive: This powerful floating fire engine was the innovation of James Braidwood, a highly respected reformer of fire fighting meth…
RT @HE_Archive: Southwark Bridge c1875 and what we thought was a steam tug on the Thames, but thanks to Duncan Mirylees for his research an…
Thursday #coronavirus COVID-19 stats for our boroughs:
Southwark
115 more people tested positive
This week: 784
La… https://t.co/YC0zWOgL1g
SamFromHK Westminster Bridge shut, heavy police presence @999London pic.twitter.com/Y599fS2HfL
DrJavidA Large road and river emergency response at #Westminsterbridge. Bridge closed pic.twitter.com/vA2G71FYqF
Today NHS England confirmed that two more patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 have died whilst in the car… https://t.co/KwvM0uir3K
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