Old London featured

at "Globe" exhibition

The development of London’s Globe Playhouse is continuing with in genuity in its programme of events in 1973. Early in the year there is a second showing of the successful exhibition ‘ln the Clink’ which traces the history of life and times in the ancient borough of Southwark from Elizabethan times to the present. The exhibition is so called because it focuses on the ‘Clink’, the infamous prison that stood near the site of the warehouse where it is being held.

This warehouse dates from the eigh teenth century and is called the Bear Gardens Museum. It stands on the

site of the sixteenth-century bear baiting amphitheatre and the The Hope playhouse.

The exhibition contains much in formation about the famous people who were connected with the borough —Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens and the Mayflower Pilgrims. The structures of everyday life such as trade and industry, land and river trans port, are also illustrated.

The exhibition is open until March 15, 10 am to 4 pm from Tuesdays to Fridays and 1 pm to 5 pm on Saturdays and Sundays, admission free.