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| | Victorian London - Districts - Areas - Bermondsey |
 | | There is an Eastern fable which tells us that a certain city was infested by poisonous serpents that killed all they fastened upon; and the citizens, thinking them sent from Heaven as a scourge for their sins, kept praying that the visitation might be removed from them, until scarcely a house remained unsmitten. |
 | | At Bermondsey, perhaps, is carried on a greater variety of trades and manufactures than in any other parish of the kingdom. |
 | | Bermondsey Spa, a chalybeate spring, discovered about 1770, was opened in 1780, as a minor Vauxhall, with fireworks, and a picture-model of the siege of Gibraltar, painted by Keyac, and occupying about four acres, He died in 1800, and the garden was shut up about 1805. |
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