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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Emma Magnus

Tower Bridge Moorings: the floating community offering a unique way to beat London’s housing crisis

At the end of Mill Street, Bermondsey, is a stone archway with a metal gate and a sign: TOWER BRIDGE MOORINGS. A wooden walkway, suspended above the Thames, leads to a cluster of about 40 boats: Dutch barges, commercial tugs and ex-Thames lighters transformed into floating gardens.

There is a bike barge, a beehive, an open-air events space and the Arts Ark, with a grand piano set against the dramatic backdrop of Tower Bridge.

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