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| Jacob's Island |
| "The filthiest, the strangest, the most extraordinary of the many localities that are hidden in London" - that's how Charles Dickens described the Victorian rookery Jacob's Island in Oliver Twist. It was home to the cruel Bill Sikes who was hanged at the end of the novel and left abandoned to die in Folly Ditch. |
| Jacob's Island no longer exists in modern Bermondsey. Folly Ditch, which looped from the Neckinger river (now St Saviour's Dock) to the Thames to create an island, has been filled in. The slums have long since gone, but a few of the old warehouses (now converted into smart flats) remain, offering a tantallising glimpse into times past. |
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