This was a struggle. They haven't played in Millwall since 1910.
Millwall was named after some windmills on a 'wall' which was a mud embankment to keep the river off the swamp. The other notable landmark seems to be a Black wall. It's now yuppieville.
Formed by tinsmiths at J.T. Morton’s Canning and Preserve Factory and prophetically called Millwall Rovers, with a HQ in The Islander pub. They then became Millwall Athletic, but dropped the suffix, presumably for trade description reasons.
The blue and white kit and Lion motif is a nod the the jockanese roots of Mr Morton.
Erm..the SS Great Britain was built and launched there.
I guess that's why the emigrated to Bermondsey, whose name means "dry bit in a swamp" and is the setting for ***in and Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist. They have more swamp beds than all of the hotels in Portugal.
Wee Willie Harris, known as "Britain's wild man of rock 'n' roll", came from Bermondsey and had worked as a pudding mixer at Peek Freans. He is usually credited as the first British rock and roll player.
The schoolkids in Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in the Wall' are from a Bermondsey School.
82% of the residents live in flats or maisonettes and over 30% of the kids are obese.
Given this, it's no surprise to read The Sunday Times named Bermondsey 'the best place to live in London in 2018'.
