The Blue

The Blue is a central market place in Bermondsey. [ [http://www.southwark.gov.uk/Public/Community.aspx?mode=Display&itemId=3597&dbLocation=0,7,71,21&category=Community%20Council Bermondsey Community Council] , on the website of Southwark Council "The central market place in Bermondsey is called The Blue. We’re not clear why it’s called The Blue, but possibly because of Bermondsey’s nautical ties or its location to Blue Anchor Road. If anyone knows better, let us at Bermondsey community council know!"] The market is open Monday to Saturday from 9am until 5pm and has about 50 stall holders, selling food and clothes. [ [http://www.myvillage.com/southwark/community-markets.htm Street markets of Southwark] [http://www.myvillage.com www.myvillage.com ] ] The area has been know as the Blue for more than two hundred and thirty years and is probably named after the Blue Anchor Pub that gave its name to Blue Anchor Lane. [Kenneth Alford Haines, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/47/a2303047.shtml A Bermondsey Boy's War. Part 2-Prelude to the Blitz] , "An archive of World War II memories written by the public, gathered by the BBC". "known as the 'Blue,' after a Pub called the 'Blue Anchor' on the corner of Blue Anchor Lane."] [Edward Walford (1878), [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45270 Bermondsey: The abbey', Old and New London: Volume 6 (1878), pp. 117-133.] , British History Online. Describes the area around the Blue Anchor Road, that was according to the source named after the Blue Anchor Pub.]

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