Bankside and Borough: Theatre, Markets and the Shard

The stops, in walking order

1. 1

   

   Stop 1: Borough Market

   ~3 min here

   Borough Market is a working food market hall, serving both wholesale trade and the general public.

2. 2

   

   Stop 2: The Shard

   ~3 min here

   The Shard is the tapering glass skyscraper rising above London Bridge, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano.

3. 3

   

   Stop 3: Old Operating Theatre Museum

   ~1 hr here

   The Old Operating Theatre Museum preserves a surgical theatre inside the garret of St Thomas’s Church, on the original site of St Thomas’ Hospital.

4. 4

   

   Stop 4: Crossbones Graveyard

   ~3 min here

   Crossbones Graveyard is a disused burial ground on Redcross Way in Southwark, with an entrance shrine where visitors leave messages, ribbons, flowers and other tokens.

5. 5

   

   Stop 5: Tate Modern

   ~1 hr here

   Tate Modern is an art gallery housed in the converted Bankside Power Station, bringing a former industrial building into the life of international modern and contemporary art.

6. 6

   

   Stop 6: Shakespeare's Globe

   ~3 min here

   The striking thing about Shakespeare’s Globe is that this open-air theatre is a modern reconstruction of the playhouse where Shakespeare’s works were performed.

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