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Massively looking forward to celebrating my 26th wedding anniversary tomorrow with @sadieholland67 by walking London's sleaziest vanished river, the #Neckinger
@sadieholland67 Almost certainly, the #Neckinger derives its name from the 'Devil's Neckcloth', or hangman's noose - the gallows which once stood at the mouth of the river, where pirates used to be hanged.
@sadieholland67 Even by the standards of London's other lost rivers, the #Neckinger was notoriously squalid: winding through the marshes of Lambeth and the mud flats of Southwark, it was lined by asylums, factories and shanty towns. It provided the setting for Bill Sykes' death in Oliver Twist.
