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Watch House, Rotherhithe

Photograph at the Watch House, Rotherhithe black plaque

Watch House In the 19th century, a watchman would have been stationed here to guard against bodysnatchers. They stole corpses from the adjoining former burial ground for medical research at Guy's Hospital.

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