r/Southwark
ActiveA sub on the London Borough of Southwark
Home to the EU's tallest building (The Shard), London's City Hall, Rio Ferdinand, HMS Belfast and the UK's oldest public gallery in Dulwich, Charles Dickens & Charlie Chaplin, Emma Thompson, The Tate Modern, Tower Bridge, Southbank, The Brunels, Oliver Twist, Michael Faraday Shakespeare's Globe and Del Boy's Peckham. This sub is for local news & our neighbours from across London. Interesting content may be crossposted to /r/London for a wider audience.
Members
9,195
as of February 2025
Last post
today
September 28, 2026
Posts (30 days)
8
Created
2016
January 6, 2016
Total posts
1.4K
archived
Total comments
507
archived
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r/Southwark was created on January 6, 2016.
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