Description:
- Long ago, before people came to the realization that bears have souls too, Bear Gardens was home to the immensely popular Elizabethan sport of bear-baiting, where dogs were set upon chained bears and trained to kill them. Now the site is home (among warehouses and offices) to a red brick house which is part of the New Globe Theatre. The brick house displays a lone, black, stuffed bear as a memorial to the street's sordid history.
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Address:
- Bear Gardens
- Southwark
- London SE1 9
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