Canning town

For the second week running Bermondsey has featured on the BBC's Inside Out programme.

Last week the programme was presented from the Bermondsey riverside around St Saviour's Dock, this week the programme took a look at a Bermondsey invention that changed the world: the tin can.

Two hundred years ago engineer Bryan Donkin set up the world's first cannery on a site off Southwark Park Rd, now occupied by the Harris Academy.

You can read more about it here