The wonders of Walworth
Shopping:
Art: Turner prize winner Gillian Wearing made Homage To The Woman With A Bandaged Face Who I Saw Yesterday Down Walworth Road, a video in which - wait for it - she bandaged her face and was filmed walking down the road
History: fossilised bones and teeth of a prehistoric woolly mammoth were discovered just off the Walworth Road
Funny walks: local Charlie Chaplin based his walk on that of a man who fed and watered horses in the area
Gangsters: in the Sixties, the Krays and the Richardsons nearly came to blows at Elephant & Castle in a "south versus east" gang battle
Cuisine: restaurant La Bodeguita caters to the large Colombian local population. Its menu includes Lengya a la criolla - ox tongue in sauce
