Borough Road was a mainline railway station in Southwark, south London, located on Borough Road, close to the location Borough Underground station.
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London School of Musical Theatre is a training academy of performing arts, that was founded by Glenn Lee in 1995. The school is located on Borough Road, central London.
It was originally housed at The Old Vic, then His Majesty's Theatre, before moving to premises on Borough Road, where it currently operates.
The school offers a one-year, full-time, vocational training for adults wishing to pursue a career in musical theatre. The ethos of LSMT is to create the environment of a professional company in rehearsal rather than that of an educational institution. The emphasis of the course is on the development of the singing voice as the tool for acting through song alongside a thorough training in dance and drama. Classes are taught by professionals and practitioners working in the industry, with direct experience of the requirements of musical theatre.
Since its inception in 1995, the organisation has commissioned new musical theatre productions, many of which have now been published and performed around the world. The school employs Charles Miller as composer-in-residence.
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The Massacre of St George's Fields occurred on 10 May 1768 when government soldiers opened fire on demonstrators that had gathered at St George's Fields, Southwark, in south London. The protest was against the imprisonment of the radical Member of Parliament John Wilkes for writing an article that severely criticised King George III. After the reading of the Riot Act telling the crowds to disperse within the hour, six or seven people were killed when fired on by troops. The incident in Britain entrenched the enduring idiom of "reading the Riot Act to someone", meaning "to reprimand severely", with the added sense of a stern warning. The phrase remains in common use in the English language.
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Borough Road is in Southwark, London SE1. It runs east–west between St George's Circus and Borough High Street.
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Mercato Metropolitano is a food hall founded in Elephant and Castle, London in 2016, located inside a former papermaking factory.
The food hall provides various options of fresh foods and meals including an Italian foods shop and market stalls.
A second location opened at the end of 2019 in St Mark's, Mayfair, followed by a third location at Wood Wharf in summer 2021.
In 2025, plans were approved by Southwark to demolish the original venue of Mercato Metropolitano as part of the Borough Triangle development, a controversial decision which was contested by locals, being seen as one of the only attractions left in Elephant and Castle and its closure as a "significant loss to the community". Part of the planned development includes a replacement food hall but there are no plans for a venue to host vendors during construction.
A docu-series, "Unknown Chefs" released in 2025 explored the stories of four chefs at Mercato Metropolitano, prompting plans to open a filming studio.
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The London metropolitan area is the metropolitan area of London, England. It has several definitions, including the London Travel to Work Area, and usually consists of the London urban area, settlements that share London's infrastructure, and places from which it is practicable to commute to work in London. It is also known as the London commuter belt, or Southeast metropolitan area.