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Through the 90s and early 00s, the Financial Times resided in Bankside

Both the razed original and still-operational replica Globe Theatres are in Bankside

Porter invented to slake the thirst of the eponymous porters who facilitated trade in Bankside

The centre of the brewing world for over 200 years, including the biggest brewery on earth was in Bankside

Transformation from power station to internationally recognised exhibition space; the Tate Modern in Bankside

The land was reclaimed from the river by people who lived and traded in Bankside

The ‘pleasure capital’ of London was in Bankside

Unchanged for almost a century, surviving WW2 and other potential fires, were the paper warehouses in Bankside

The Golden Hinde Galleon is a replica ship that has sailed over 100,000 miles, circumnavigating the globe and is now docked in Bankside

The Anchor pub is the sole survivor of Jacobean riverside inns that existed in Bankside

The Clink Prison was burnt down twice, once during the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt and again during the 1780 Gordon riots in Bankside

The oldest railway station in London (but not the first) is London Bridge in Bankside

Dating back at least 6000 years, one of the oldest settlements in Britain is in Bankside

For over 40 years Bankside Gallery has played a crucial role in displaying and promoting work on paper in Bankside

Since at least the 12th Century there has been a food market at Borough Market in Bankside

The “Winchester Geese” were licensed by the Bishop of Winchester and are buried in unconsecrated graves in Bankside

The first Depeche Mode album was recorded in Blackwing Studios in Bankside

Napoleonic cannons make up some of the bollards in Bankside

The UK’s first commercial development to meet UK Green Building Council’s net zero standards, The Forge, is in Bankside

An Innovation Award from London Building Council Office’s awards was won by The Forge in Bankside

Existing building materials from the old Red Lion Court building will be used in Timber Square in Bankside

The largest hybrid building in Europe to use Cross-Laminated Timber is Landsec’s Timber Square in Bankside

The Liberty site has revealed many secrets from the past, including mosaics and artefacts from Roman settlements in Bankside

The Boot and Flogger is the only pub in the UK that can sell wine without a license due to special dispensation by James 1 in 1611 in Bankside

Near where rave was born is now Omeara, an inclusive music venue for emerging talent and household names in Bankside

Museum of Painted Gum is the masticated artworks by street artist Ben Wilson, who paints pictures on to bits of chewing gum that people have spat on the floor in Bankside

As long as you’re between Blackfriars Bridge and London Bridge you’re in Bankside

Tate Modern is the fourth most visited art museum in the world in Bankside

The (actual) first Globe was moved plank by plank over the frozen Thames in 1599, to where it used to stand near the Rose Theatre in Bankside

The term ‘Drag Queens’ derived from cross-gender theatre, where men played women and dragged their hoop skirts across the stage in Bankside

The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century references workers crossing London Bridge in Bankside

Mary Wollstonecraft, British writer, philosopher and feminist, lived at 45 Dolben Street in Bankside

The Red Cross Garden is an award-winning green space – a restored and renovated Victorian Garden in Bankside

The fourth most visited art museum in the world is the Tate Modern in Bankside

Borough Market opens trade up to 100 vendors in Bankside

In 1666, the diarist Samuel Pepys watched the Great Fire of London from a pub in Bankside

Landsec have been part of Bankside for longer than you think. The award-winning Bankside 1 (now known as Blue Fin), 2 and 3 were delivered by Landsec back in 2007 in Bankside

The trees used in Timber Square’s construction will remove 5,335.5 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere in Bankside

All workplace buildings target a minimum of NABERS 5* and WELL Platinum in Bankside

The lowest suspension bridge of its kind is the pedestrian only Millenium Bridge in Bankside

Myo Bankside has event spaces for hire including a top floor terrace with views of the City and Tate Modern in Bankside