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John Smith House, Southwark

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140 152 Walworth Road (geograph 4829275)
140 152 Walworth Road (geograph 4829275)

John Smith House is the former Labour Party headquarters at 144–152 Walworth Road in south London. The party first occupied the building in 1980, vacating its former headquarters at Transport House. It was renamed after John Smith, the former leader of the Labour Party who died in office in May 1994 less than two years after becoming leader.

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John Smith House, Southwark
Walworth Road, London Elephant and Castle (London Borough of Southwark)

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SE17 1JY London, Elephant and Castle (London Borough of Southwark)
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Cuming Museum
Cuming Museum

The Cuming Museum in Walworth Road in Elephant and Castle, within the London Borough of Southwark, London, England, was a museum housing the collection of the Cuming family and later collections on Southwark's history. As of 2020, its collections are due to be rehoused in a new Southwark Heritage Centre.Richard Cuming (1777–1870) started his collecting life when he was only five with some fossils and a coin that had been given to him by a family friend. That ignited a passion for collecting, which lasted for his lifetime. He made his first significant purchases in 1806 at the sale of the Leverian Museum. His interests covered geology, scientific equipment and animalia. The collection was bequeathed to the people of Southwark by his son, Henry Syer Cuming, in 1902, and the museum opened in 1906. As described in Cuming's will, it comprised "My Museum illustrative of Natural History, Archaeology and Ethnology with my coins and medals and... other curios".The museum galleries were moved from the first floor of the Newington Public Library to the building next door, the former Walworth Town Hall, in 2006. On 25 March 2013, that building was seriously damaged by fire, severely affecting the museum galleries but leading to only a very small loss from the collections. Around 98% of objects on display at the time of the fire were recovered and were placed in storage to await a solution to the display of the collections and public access to them. The Cuming and local history collections are due to be re-displayed and stored at a new Southwark Heritage Centre under construction as part of the Lend Lease Elephant Park development at a new site at the north end of Walworth Road - it was due for completion by the end of 2020 but this has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.