With its cobbled streets and fair number of old buildings, London's district of Bermondsey shows off a rich history - from well-to-do garden suburb to a notorious riverside slum to a modern, on-the-rise district.
Bill Sikes, principle villain is Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, meets his end in the mud of Folly Ditch (an area known as Hickmans Folly), immortalizing Bermondsey riverside's days as a slum.