| The
St Helena Tavern and Tea
Gardens was Rotherhithe's
chief 'rural' place of entertainment.
It opened between c.1770
and 1881, when it fell victim
to urban development.
It
was on Corbet's Lane, a
now extinguished road that
ran south of and parallel
to the modern Rotherhithe
New Road.
When established,
the tavern was one of many
such attractions, and like
its peers it struggled to
maintain its respectable
qualities in the face of
London's expansion. |
