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Southwark was a borough in London. (TV: Father's Day) It was located on the south bank of the River Thames. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen, The Lie of the Land)
Geography
Southwark shared its northern border with the River Thames, across which were both the City of London - to the west - and Tower Hamlets to the east. The borough shared its eastern border with Lewisham, a short length of its southern border with Bromley and its western border with Lambeth. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)
The northern part of Southwark was the location of several London landmarks including the Globe Theatre, (TV: The Shakespeare Code) the Shard, HMS Belfast and the southernmost landfall of Tower Bridge.[1]
History
The Doctor had once gone carousing with Geoffrey Chaucer in the Tabard in 14th century Southwark over mugs of ale. (PROSE: Synthespians™)
The Globe Theatre was built in Southwark. In 1599, the only performance of Love's Labour's Won temporarily brought the Carrionites to Earth with the power of words, but William Shakespeare, aided by the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones, devised his own words to send them back. (TV: The Shakespeare Code)
Richard Lazarus was from Southwark. During the London Blitz, he hid in the crypts of the Southwark Cathedral. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment)
On 7 November 1987, Peter Tyler died in a car accident outside St Christopher's Parish Church on the day of the wedding of Stuart Hoskins and Sarah Clark. (TV: Father's Day)
In 2008, Richard Lazarus presented his rejuvenation device in Southwark. It mutated him into a monster which killed several people. he again hid in the cathedral's crypts as he had done during the Blitz. Martha Jones and the Tenth Doctor found him and he chased Martha up the bell tower. The Doctor used the cathedral's organ to distract him and he fell to his death. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment)
In 2008 Coldfire Construction put up a new technology block in one of the schools in Southwark. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)
Behind the scenes
According to non-narrative information in the DWBIT Daleks vs Cybermen Special, in 2007, Southwark was at the forefront in the brief Battle of Canary Wharf between the Cybermen and Daleks. Many casualties and much damage occurred across the streets of Southwark. V. J. Ellison commented on the battle at a later date.
Footnotes
- ↑ By combining the London street map seen in The Lie of the Land, and the various birds-eye view shots of the same area shown throughout the episode, with the map of London boroughs seen in TV: Revenge of the Slitheen, these locations are definitively shown to be located in Southwark.
