Editing Rotherhithe (section)

==Local landmarks and history==
[[File:Academy Architecture 1895 Accepted Design for Rotherhithe Town Hall View from Neptune Street and Lower Road MURRAY AND FOSTER Architects.jpg|thumb|1895 accepted design for Rotherhithe Town Hall, view from Neptune Street and Lower Road]]
The Mayflower TRA Hall now occupies the site of the old Rotherhithe Town Hall.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rotherhithe Town Hall and Library |url=http://www.exploringsouthwark.co.uk/rotherhithe-town-hall/4593864827 |access-date=9 March 2018}}</ref> The building ceased to be a town hall in 1905 when the former Rotherhithe Council merged with the old Bermondsey Borough Council and the new council used premises in [[Spa Road, Bermondsey|Spa Road]]. The old Rotherhithe Town Hall became a library and a museum. It was razed to the ground by repeated bomb hits and near misses during the Second World War (see [[#Second World War|below]]).<ref>{{cite news |first=James |last=Blackman |date=28 May 2009 |title=Bring the statues back home to Rotherhithe |newspaper=Southwark News |url=http://www.southwarknews.co.uk/00,news,15276,466,00.htm}}</ref>

Rotherhithe had its own general hospital, [[St Olave's Hospital]], on Lower Road close to the old town hall. Built originally in the early 1870s on land adjoining Rotherhithe Workhouse, it became the infirmary of St Olave's Union in 1875, and was renamed St Olave's Hospital in 1930. Subsequently, becoming part of the Guy's Hospital Teaching Group in 1966, it closed in 1985 and the site has been redeveloped into the residential Ann Moss Way.

The Terriss Theatre (named after the actor, [[William Terriss]]) opened in 1899 and was later renamed the Rotherhithe Hippodrome of Varieties. It stood on Lower Road by Culling Road. It was bombed in the 1940s and stood empty until demolition in 1955.

When the roundabout facing the Rotherhithe Tunnel was redeveloped in the early 1980s, several 19th century buildings were demolished including a school and a nunnery. A public house, the ''"Europa"'', described in an early 20th-century history of the area as one its oldest, was also demolished.

The ''[[Daily Mail]]'' and ''[[Evening Standard]]'' newspapers were printed at Harmsworth Quays in Rotherhithe from 1989 to 2012. The building became the [[Printworks (London)|Printworks]] events venue until its demolition in 2024.