Daniel Day Lewis won a BAFTA award for Leading Actor in There Will be Blood earlier this week. In his speech he talked about his SE London childhood: 'Invicta Infants School, Sherrington Primary School in Charlton, Greenwich Park, Blackheath, the streets of Deptford, Lewisham and New Cross, the bomb sites on the Isle of Dogs, the wharves and shadowy laneways of the South East London docks, the terraces of Millwall football ground, those were the playgrounds of my early life'. (thanks to John Eden for tipping me off about this)
Weathered and worn: Battle Abbey's stones
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When he won the Battle of Hastings. William the Conqueror had Battle Abbey
built at the site. It was completed in 1094, although of course there have
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