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[[The Tabard]] was an inn on [[Borough High Street]]<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |editor-last1=Roberts |editor-first1=Howard |editor-last2=Godfrey |editor-first2=Walter H. |editor-link2=Walter Godfrey |date=1950 |series=[[Survey of London]] |volume=XXII |title=Bankside (The Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch, Southwark) |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol22 |publisher=[[London County Council]] |chapter=Borough High Street |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol22/pp9-30 |page=21 |quote=No. 85. The Tabard |ref={{harvid|LCC|1950}}}}</ref> established in about 1306<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rendle |first1=William |author-link1=William Rendle |last2=Norman |first2=Philip |author-link2=Philip Norman (artist) |date=1888 |title=The Inns of Old Southwark and Their Associations |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924032404950 |publisher=[[Longman|Longmans, Green, and Co.]] |location=London |chapter=The Tabard |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924032404950/page/n199/mode/2up |pages=169–170 |quote=This was the most celebrated, and, as far as I know, the most ancient of the Southwark hostelries, having been built probably about 1306}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|LCC|1950|p=21}}: "The Tabard was probably one of the earliest inns in this street of inns, for there is mention of it in 1306 when the Abbot of Hyde had lodgings adjoining."</ref> or 1307.<ref>{{cite book |last=Walford |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Walford |date=1878a |title=Old and New London |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/old-new-london |publisher=[[Cassell (publisher)|Cassell, Petter & Galpin]] |volume=VI: The Southern Suburbs |chapter=Southwark (continued). – Famous Inns of Olden Times |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp76-89 |page=76 |quote=The land on which the old 'Tabarde' stood was purchased by the Abbot of Hyde in the year 1307, and he built on it ... an inn}}</ref> It is best known for being a meeting point for pilgrims to the shrine of [[Thomas Becket|Thomas à Becket]] in [[Canterbury]] and appears in ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' written by [[Geoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]] in the late 14th century.<ref>{{harvnb|Walford|1878a|p=76}}: "There can be no doubt that by the end of the fourteenth century the 'Tabard' was already one of the inns most frequented by 'Canterbury Pilgrims', or else Chaucer would scarcely have introduced it to us in that character."</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Rendle|Norman|1888|pp=170–171}}: "The Tabard owes all its fame to the fact that it was depicted by Chaucer as the place of assemblage for his Canterbury pilgrims."</ref> Around the 17th century it was renamed the Talbot<ref>{{harvnb|Rendle|Norman|1888|pp=184–185}}: "The name was changed to Talbot, perhaps by fancy, or because a word slips phonetically with such ease into another shape."</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Walford|1878a|pp=77, 80}}: "[A]lthough ... it was for a time called, not the 'Tabard', but the 'Talbot', there can be no doubt that the inn ... was the immediate successor of the inn and hostelry commemorated by our great poet."</ref> and was probably rebuilt at least twice, including after the Southwark fire of 1676.<ref>{{harvnb|Rendle|Norman|1888|pp=190–191}}: "In their report of 1634 they say the Talbot was built of brick six years before ... Now comes the great fire of 1676, ... where it is said that 'the Talbot with its backhouses, stables, etc., was burnt down to the ground.'"</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Walford|1878a|p=77}}: "The original 'Tabard' was in existence as late as the year 1602 ... In this fire [of 1676] ... as the 'Tabard' stood nearly in the centre of this area ... there can be little doubt that the old inn perished."</ref> The replacement building was demolished in 1874<ref>{{harvnb|Walford|1878a|p=77}}: "No part of it, however, as it appeared at the time of its demolition in 1874, was of the age of Chaucer"</ref> or 1875.<ref>{{harvnb|LCC|1950|p=21}}: "The old Tabard Inn was pulled down in 1875, though a modern building bears the name."</ref><ref>{{cite book| author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |editor-last=Malden |editor-first=H. E. |editor-link=Henry Elliot Malden |date=1912 |title=The Victoria History of the County of Surrey |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/vch--surrey |publisher=[[Victoria County History]] |volume=4 |chapter=The borough of Southwark: Introduction |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol4/pp125-135 |pages=125–135 |quote=The historic 'Tabard' was rebuilt after 1676 and gave place only in 1875 to the modern public-house of the same name. |via=[[British History Online]]}}</ref>
[[The Tabard]] was an inn on [[Borough High Street]]<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |editor-last1=Roberts |editor-first1=Howard |editor-last2=Godfrey |editor-first2=Walter H. |editor-link2=Walter Godfrey |date=1950 |series=[[Survey of London]] |volume=XXII |title=Bankside (The Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch, Southwark) |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol22 |publisher=[[London County Council]] |chapter=Borough High Street |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol22/pp9-30 |page=21 |quote=No. 85. The Tabard |ref={{harvid|LCC|1950}}}}</ref> established in about 1306<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rendle |first1=William |author-link1=William Rendle |last2=Norman |first2=Philip |author-link2=Philip Norman (artist) |date=1888 |title=The Inns of Old Southwark and Their Associations |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924032404950 |publisher=[[Longman|Longmans, Green, and Co.]] |location=London |chapter=The Tabard |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924032404950/page/n199/mode/2up |pages=169–170 |quote=This was the most celebrated, and, as far as I know, the most ancient of the Southwark hostelries, having been built probably about 1306}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|LCC|1950|p=21}}: "The Tabard was probably one of the earliest inns in this street of inns, for there is mention of it in 1306 when the Abbot of Hyde had lodgings adjoining."</ref> or 1307.<ref>{{cite book |last=Walford |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Walford |date=1878a |title=Old and New London |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/old-new-london |publisher=[[Cassell (publisher)|Cassell, Petter & Galpin]] |volume=VI: The Southern Suburbs |chapter=Southwark (continued). – Famous Inns of Olden Times |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp76-89 |page=76 |quote=The land on which the old 'Tabarde' stood was purchased by the Abbot of Hyde in the year 1307, and he built on it ... an inn}}</ref> It is best known for being a meeting point for pilgrims to the shrine of [[Thomas Becket|Thomas à Becket]] in [[Canterbury]] and appears in ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' written by [[Geoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]] in the late 14th century.<ref>{{harvnb|Walford|1878a|p=76}}: "There can be no doubt that by the end of the fourteenth century the 'Tabard' was already one of the inns most frequented by 'Canterbury Pilgrims', or else Chaucer would scarcely have introduced it to us in that character."</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Rendle|Norman|1888|pp=170–171}}: "The Tabard owes all its fame to the fact that it was depicted by Chaucer as the place of assemblage for his Canterbury pilgrims."</ref> Around the 17th century it was renamed the Talbot<ref>{{harvnb|Rendle|Norman|1888|pp=184–185}}: "The name was changed to Talbot, perhaps by fancy, or because a word slips phonetically with such ease into another shape."</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Walford|1878a|pp=77, 80}}: "[A]lthough ... it was for a time called, not the 'Tabard', but the 'Talbot', there can be no doubt that the inn ... was the immediate successor of the inn and hostelry commemorated by our great poet."</ref> and was probably rebuilt at least twice, including after the Southwark fire of 1676.<ref>{{harvnb|Rendle|Norman|1888|pp=190–191}}: "In their report of 1634 they say the Talbot was built of brick six years before ... Now comes the great fire of 1676, ... where it is said that 'the Talbot with its backhouses, stables, etc., was burnt down to the ground.'"</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Walford|1878a|p=77}}: "The original 'Tabard' was in existence as late as the year 1602 ... In this fire [of 1676] ... as the 'Tabard' stood nearly in the centre of this area ... there can be little doubt that the old inn perished."</ref> The replacement building was demolished in 1874<ref>{{harvnb|Walford|1878a|p=77}}: "No part of it, however, as it appeared at the time of its demolition in 1874, was of the age of Chaucer"</ref> or 1875.<ref>{{harvnb|LCC|1950|p=21}}: "The old Tabard Inn was pulled down in 1875, though a modern building bears the name."</ref><ref>{{cite book| author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |editor-last=Malden |editor-first=H. E. |editor-link=Henry Elliot Malden |date=1912 |title=The Victoria History of the County of Surrey |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/vch--surrey |publisher=[[Victoria County History]] |volume=4 |chapter=The borough of Southwark: Introduction |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol4/pp125-135 |pages=125–135 |quote=The historic 'Tabard' was rebuilt after 1676 and gave place only in 1875 to the modern public-house of the same name. |via=[[British History Online]]}}</ref>


[[Tabard Street]], renamed after the inn in 1877, was the northern end of Kent Street<ref>{{cite book |last=Darlington |first=Ida |date=1955 |series=[[Survey of London]] |volume=XXV |title=St. George's Fields (The Parishes of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, and St. Mary, Newington) |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol25 |publisher=[[London County Council]] |chapter=Tabard Street and the Old Kent Road, Formerly Kent Street |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol25/pp121-126 |page=121 |quote=It was re-named Tabard Street in 1877.}}</ref> (the southern portion is now [[Old Kent Road]]<ref>{{harvnb|Darlington|1955|p=122}}: "Early in the 19th century the part of Kent Street south of the Lock Hospital, or Stone's End as it was sometimes called, became known as the Old Kent Road to differentiate it from the New Kent Road."</ref>). Kent Street had been part of the main route into London from the port of [[Dover]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Walford |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Walford |date=1878b |title=Old and New London |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/old-new-london |publisher=[[Cassell (publisher)|Cassell, Petter & Galpin]] |volume=VI: The Southern Suburbs |chapter=Southwark (continued). – High Street, &c. |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp57-75 |page=70 |quote=Until the formation of the Dover Road early in the present century, Kent Street ... was part of the great way from Dover and the Continent to the metropolis.}}</ref> The section that is now Tabard Street was [[Bypass (road)|bypassed]] by the [[Turnpike trust|turnpike]] development of [[Great Dover Street]] in about 1814.<ref>{{cite book |last=Walford |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Walford |date=1878c |title=Old and New London |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/old-new-london |publisher=[[Cassell (publisher)|Cassell, Petter & Galpin]] |volume=VI: The Southern Suburbs |chapter=The Old Kent Road, &c. |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp248-255 |page=253 |quote=Great Dover Street is of comparatively recent growth, having been formed since the commencement of the present century to supersede the old, narrow, and disreputable Kent Street, which runs parallel with it on the north side}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Darlington|1955|p=121}}: "After 1814 through traffic was diverted down Great Dover Street"</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.turnpikes.org.uk/English%20turnpike%20table.htm |title=Turnpike Trusts in England |website=Turnpike Roads in England and Wales |access-date=16 January 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707140712/http://www.turnpikes.org.uk/English%20turnpike%20table.htm |archive-date=7 July 2021}}</ref>
[[Tabard Street]], renamed after the inn in 1877, was the northern end of Kent Street<ref>{{cite book |last=Darlington |first=Ida |date=1955 |series=[[Survey of London]] |volume=XXV |title=St. George's Fields (The Parishes of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, and St. Mary, Newington) |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol25 |publisher=[[London County Council]] |chapter=Tabard Street and the Old Kent Road, Formerly Kent Street |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol25/pp121-126 |page=121 |quote=It was re-named Tabard Street in 1877.}}</ref> (the southern portion is now [[Old Kent Road]]<ref>{{harvnb|Darlington|1955|p=122}}: "Early in the 19th century the part of Kent Street south of the Lock Hospital, or Stone's End as it was sometimes called, became known as the Old Kent Road to differentiate it from the New Kent Road."</ref>). Kent Street had been part of the main route between London and the port of [[Dover]] until it was supplanted by newer roads.<ref>{{cite book |last=Walford |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Walford |date=1878b |title=Old and New London |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/old-new-london |publisher=[[Cassell (publisher)|Cassell, Petter & Galpin]] |volume=VI: The Southern Suburbs |chapter=Southwark (continued). – High Street, &c. |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp57-75 |page=70 |quote=Until the formation of the Dover Road early in the present century, Kent Street ... was part of the great way from Dover and the Continent to the metropolis.}}</ref> The section that is now Tabard Street was [[Bypass (road)|bypassed]] by the [[Turnpike trust|turnpike]] development of [[Great Dover Street]] in about 1814.<ref>{{cite book |last=Walford |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Walford |date=1878c |title=Old and New London |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/old-new-london |publisher=[[Cassell (publisher)|Cassell, Petter & Galpin]] |volume=VI: The Southern Suburbs |chapter=The Old Kent Road, &c. |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp248-255 |page=253 |quote=Great Dover Street is of comparatively recent growth, having been formed since the commencement of the present century to supersede the old, narrow, and disreputable Kent Street, which runs parallel with it on the north side}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Darlington|1955|p=121}}: "After 1814 through traffic was diverted down Great Dover Street"</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.turnpikes.org.uk/English%20turnpike%20table.htm |title=Turnpike Trusts in England |website=Turnpike Roads in England and Wales |access-date=16 January 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707140712/http://www.turnpikes.org.uk/English%20turnpike%20table.htm |archive-date=7 July 2021}}</ref>


By the 20th century Tabard Street was surrounded by notorious slums.<ref>{{cite book |last=Besant |first=Walter |author-link=Walter Besant |date=1912 |title=London South of the Thames |url=https://archive.org/details/surveyoflondon10besa |publisher=[[A & C Black|Adam & Charles Black]] |location=London |chapter=Bermondsey |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/surveyoflondon10besa/page/68/mode/2up |pages=68–69}}</ref> Some of these slums were cleared by the [[London County Council]] in 1910 and the area was rebuilt as the Tabard Gardens Estate from 1910 to 1933.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hannikainen |first=Matti O. |date=2016 |title=The Greening of London, 1920–2000 |publisher=Routledge |pages=39 |doi=10.4324/9781315563145 |isbn=978-1138307186 |quote=In 1910 the LCC had begun to construct the Tabard Garden estate (Southwark), one of the first and largest slum clearances in the city. The first house was completed in 1917 and the last in 1933.}}</ref><ref name="Darlington 1955, p. 121 (housing scheme)">{{harvnb|Darlington|1955|p=121}}: "Most of the east side of the street was cleared in 1910 under a London County Council housing scheme; large blocks of dwellings were built and a small open space, Tabard Garden, was formed to give them breathing space."</ref> Of the 10½ acres ({{convert|10.5|acres|ha|disp=out|abbr=off}}) of the development site, {{convert|5|acres|ha|sigfig=1|abbr=off}} were set aside as a park for the development, and named Tabard Gardens.<ref name="Hannikainen 2016, p. 39 (new park)">{{harvnb|Hannikainen|2016|p=39}}: "5 acres of the 10.5-acre area were developed as a new park, named Tabard Gardens that was opened in 1929"</ref><ref name="Darlington 1955, p. 121 (housing scheme)"/> The park was opened to the public in 1929.<ref name="Hannikainen 2016, p. 39 (new park)"/>
By the 20th century Tabard Street was surrounded by notorious slums.<ref>{{cite book |last=Besant |first=Walter |author-link=Walter Besant |date=1912 |title=London South of the Thames |url=https://archive.org/details/surveyoflondon10besa |publisher=[[A & C Black|Adam & Charles Black]] |location=London |chapter=Bermondsey |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/surveyoflondon10besa/page/68/mode/2up |pages=68–69}}</ref> Some of these slums were cleared by the [[London County Council]] in 1910 and the area was rebuilt as the Tabard Gardens Estate from 1910 to 1933.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hannikainen |first=Matti O. |date=2016 |title=The Greening of London, 1920–2000 |publisher=Routledge |pages=39 |doi=10.4324/9781315563145 |isbn=978-1138307186 |quote=In 1910 the LCC had begun to construct the Tabard Garden estate (Southwark), one of the first and largest slum clearances in the city. The first house was completed in 1917 and the last in 1933.}}</ref><ref name="Darlington 1955, p. 121 (housing scheme)">{{harvnb|Darlington|1955|p=121}}: "Most of the east side of the street was cleared in 1910 under a London County Council housing scheme; large blocks of dwellings were built and a small open space, Tabard Garden, was formed to give them breathing space."</ref> Of the 10½ acres ({{convert|10.5|acres|ha|disp=out|abbr=off}}) of the development site, {{convert|5|acres|ha|sigfig=1|abbr=off}} were set aside as a park for the development, and named Tabard Gardens.<ref name="Hannikainen 2016, p. 39 (new park)">{{harvnb|Hannikainen|2016|p=39}}: "5 acres of the 10.5-acre area were developed as a new park, named Tabard Gardens that was opened in 1929"</ref><ref name="Darlington 1955, p. 121 (housing scheme)"/> The park was opened to the public in 1929.<ref name="Hannikainen 2016, p. 39 (new park)"/>

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Tabard Gardens
Tabard Gardens has a large grassed area and is surrounded by houses and flats
Tabard Gardens is located in London Borough of Southwark
Tabard Gardens
Location within the London Borough of Southwark
LocationLondon
OS gridTQ327795
Coordinates51°29′56″N 0°05′23″W / 51.4989°N 0.0897°W / 51.4989; -0.0897
Area1.762 hectares (4.354 acres)[1]
Opened1929
EtymologyFrom Tabard Street, itself named after the former Tabard public house
Operated bySouthwark Council
OpenDaily from 7:30am until around sunset[2]
AwardsGreen Flag Award[3]
FacilitiesChildren’s play area, outdoor gym, table tennis tables, artificial grass pitches, multi-use sports pitches
Websitewww.southwark.gov.uk/parks-and-open-spaces/parks/tabard-gardens

Tabard Gardens is a small park in Southwark, London. It is located on and named after Tabard Street (itself named after the former Tabard public house). It was created as part of a slum clearance programme by the London County Council and was opened in 1929. It is owned and managed by Southwark Council.[1]

History

The Tabard was an inn on Borough High Street[4] established in about 1306[5][6] or 1307.[7] It is best known for being a meeting point for pilgrims to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury and appears in The Canterbury Tales written by Chaucer in the late 14th century.[8][9] Around the 17th century it was renamed the Talbot[10][11] and was probably rebuilt at least twice, including after the Southwark fire of 1676.[12][13] The replacement building was demolished in 1874[14] or 1875.[15][16]

Tabard Street, renamed after the inn in 1877, was the northern end of Kent Street[17] (the southern portion is now Old Kent Road[18]). Kent Street had been part of the main route between London and the port of Dover until it was supplanted by newer roads.[19] The section that is now Tabard Street was bypassed by the turnpike development of Great Dover Street in about 1814.[20][21][22]

By the 20th century Tabard Street was surrounded by notorious slums.[23] Some of these slums were cleared by the London County Council in 1910 and the area was rebuilt as the Tabard Gardens Estate from 1910 to 1933.[24][25] Of the 10½ acres (4.2 hectares) of the development site, 5 acres (2 hectares) were set aside as a park for the development, and named Tabard Gardens.[26][25] The park was opened to the public in 1929.[26]

Tabard Gardens first won a Green Flag Award[3] in 2013,[27][28] which it has retained in each subsequent year of the competition up to and including 2021.[29][30][31]

Facilities and features

David Idowu memorial bench

Tabard Gardens has large grassed areas, a wildlife area and a children's play area.[32]

Artificial grass football pitches, which were built in 2000 and refurbished in 2008,[33] are available to book for a fee.[32] There are also multi-use sports pitches,[32] which are free to use and do not require booking,[34] and three table tennis tables.[35] A free outdoor gym[36] was installed in 2013.[37] The park hosts boot camp training.[38]

A mosaic memorial bench created by Arthur de Mowbray and Jay James was installed in 2011 to commemorate David Idowu, who was murdered in the park in 2008.[39] A peace event is held in the park most years to mark the anniversary of Idowu's death.[40][41][42]

The surrounding estate, but not the park itself, has some of the last remaining World War II stretcher fences in London, which were ARP metal stretchers that, after the war, were re-purposed as fences on estates.[43] The Tabard Gardens Community Allotments[44] are on the surrounding Tabard Gardens Estate, rather than within the park itself.[45]

Crime incidents

  • In 1968, a 5-year-old boy, David Lawrence, was murdered in the toilets in the park. The killer was never found.[46]
  • In 2008, a 14-year-old boy, David Idowu, was stabbed in the park while playing football.[47] He died in hospital three weeks later.[48][49] In 2009, 16-year-old Elijah Dayoni was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 12 years for Idowu's murder.[47][50][51]
  • In 2014, an 18-year-old man was stabbed to death outside a nearby off-licence and died in Pilgrimage Street; the air ambulance landed in Tabard Gardens.[52]

References

  1. ^ a b "Tabard Gardens". London Gardens Trust. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Opening times". Southwark Council. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Tabard Gardens". Green Flag Award. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  4. ^ Roberts, Howard; Godfrey, Walter H., eds. (1950). "Borough High Street". Bankside (The Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch, Southwark). Survey of London. Vol. XXII. London County Council. p. 21. No. 85. The Tabard
  5. ^ Rendle, William; Norman, Philip (1888). "The Tabard". The Inns of Old Southwark and Their Associations. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. pp. 169–170. This was the most celebrated, and, as far as I know, the most ancient of the Southwark hostelries, having been built probably about 1306
  6. ^ LCC 1950, p. 21: "The Tabard was probably one of the earliest inns in this street of inns, for there is mention of it in 1306 when the Abbot of Hyde had lodgings adjoining."
  7. ^ Walford, Edward (1878a). "Southwark (continued). – Famous Inns of Olden Times". Old and New London. Vol. VI: The Southern Suburbs. Cassell, Petter & Galpin. p. 76. The land on which the old 'Tabarde' stood was purchased by the Abbot of Hyde in the year 1307, and he built on it ... an inn
  8. ^ Walford 1878a, p. 76: "There can be no doubt that by the end of the fourteenth century the 'Tabard' was already one of the inns most frequented by 'Canterbury Pilgrims', or else Chaucer would scarcely have introduced it to us in that character."
  9. ^ Rendle & Norman 1888, pp. 170–171: "The Tabard owes all its fame to the fact that it was depicted by Chaucer as the place of assemblage for his Canterbury pilgrims."
  10. ^ Rendle & Norman 1888, pp. 184–185: "The name was changed to Talbot, perhaps by fancy, or because a word slips phonetically with such ease into another shape."
  11. ^ Walford 1878a, pp. 77, 80: "[A]lthough ... it was for a time called, not the 'Tabard', but the 'Talbot', there can be no doubt that the inn ... was the immediate successor of the inn and hostelry commemorated by our great poet."
  12. ^ Rendle & Norman 1888, pp. 190–191: "In their report of 1634 they say the Talbot was built of brick six years before ... Now comes the great fire of 1676, ... where it is said that 'the Talbot with its backhouses, stables, etc., was burnt down to the ground.'"
  13. ^ Walford 1878a, p. 77: "The original 'Tabard' was in existence as late as the year 1602 ... In this fire [of 1676] ... as the 'Tabard' stood nearly in the centre of this area ... there can be little doubt that the old inn perished."
  14. ^ Walford 1878a, p. 77: "No part of it, however, as it appeared at the time of its demolition in 1874, was of the age of Chaucer"
  15. ^ LCC 1950, p. 21: "The old Tabard Inn was pulled down in 1875, though a modern building bears the name."
  16. ^ Malden, H. E., ed. (1912). "The borough of Southwark: Introduction". The Victoria History of the County of Surrey. Vol. 4. Victoria County History. pp. 125–135 – via British History Online. The historic 'Tabard' was rebuilt after 1676 and gave place only in 1875 to the modern public-house of the same name.
  17. ^ Darlington, Ida (1955). "Tabard Street and the Old Kent Road, Formerly Kent Street". St. George's Fields (The Parishes of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, and St. Mary, Newington). Survey of London. Vol. XXV. London County Council. p. 121. It was re-named Tabard Street in 1877.
  18. ^ Darlington 1955, p. 122: "Early in the 19th century the part of Kent Street south of the Lock Hospital, or Stone's End as it was sometimes called, became known as the Old Kent Road to differentiate it from the New Kent Road."
  19. ^ Walford, Edward (1878b). "Southwark (continued). – High Street, &c.". Old and New London. Vol. VI: The Southern Suburbs. Cassell, Petter & Galpin. p. 70. Until the formation of the Dover Road early in the present century, Kent Street ... was part of the great way from Dover and the Continent to the metropolis.
  20. ^ Walford, Edward (1878c). "The Old Kent Road, &c.". Old and New London. Vol. VI: The Southern Suburbs. Cassell, Petter & Galpin. p. 253. Great Dover Street is of comparatively recent growth, having been formed since the commencement of the present century to supersede the old, narrow, and disreputable Kent Street, which runs parallel with it on the north side
  21. ^ Darlington 1955, p. 121: "After 1814 through traffic was diverted down Great Dover Street"
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  23. ^ Besant, Walter (1912). "Bermondsey". London South of the Thames. London: Adam & Charles Black. pp. 68–69.
  24. ^ Hannikainen, Matti O. (2016). The Greening of London, 1920–2000. Routledge. p. 39. doi:10.4324/9781315563145. ISBN 978-1138307186. In 1910 the LCC had begun to construct the Tabard Garden estate (Southwark), one of the first and largest slum clearances in the city. The first house was completed in 1917 and the last in 1933.
  25. ^ a b Darlington 1955, p. 121: "Most of the east side of the street was cleared in 1910 under a London County Council housing scheme; large blocks of dwellings were built and a small open space, Tabard Garden, was formed to give them breathing space."
  26. ^ a b Hannikainen 2016, p. 39: "5 acres of the 10.5-acre area were developed as a new park, named Tabard Gardens that was opened in 1929"
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  28. ^ "Green flag raised at Tabard Gardens". London SE1. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
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  34. ^ "Tabard Gardens". Everyone Active. Retrieved 10 October 2021. Multi Use Games Area – Free of charge and no booking required
  35. ^ "Tabard Gardens". Table Tennis England. Retrieved 2 April 2022. 3 tables located next to the outdoor gym and basketball courts
  36. ^ "Outdoor sport facilities". Southwark Council. Retrieved 10 October 2021. Tabard Gardens gym is located near the playground and astro pitch off Tabard Street
  37. ^ "Outdoor gym installed in Tabard Gardens". London SE1. 8 June 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
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  41. ^ "Peace Day in Tabard Gardens five years on from David Idowu murder". London SE1. 13 July 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  42. ^ "Peace event to remember teenager David Idowu ten years after fatal stabbing". Southwark News. London. 6 July 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
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  44. ^ "Tabard Gardens Community Allotments". Retrieved 10 October 2021.
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  49. ^ "Youth dies weeks after stabbing". BBC News. London. 7 July 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  50. ^ "Youth detained for boy's murder". BBC News. London. 16 January 2009. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
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