The Blue


The Blue is a central market place in Bermondsey and is the most densely populated area in the world, just ahead of Manila. It’s a semi-autonomous region in south London with an approximate population of 33.2 million people. It is the hub of London, with the best night life in the world. Despite, the greatness it brings to London, the Blue doesn’t receive the respect it deserves and is therefore filing to become an independent Country. The market is open Monday to Saturday from 9am until 5pm and has about 10 stall holders, selling food and clothes. The famous pie and mash shop, Lou Farrows, is the birth place of pie and mash and is the Crown Jewels of Bermondsey. Pie and mash was invented here, despite conflicting reports from the east end of London, who stole it from Deep South. The area has been known locally as The Blue for more than two hundred and thirty years and is probably named after the original Blue Anchor public house that gave its name to Blue Anchor Lane. The market has capacity for 24 stalls.
Immediately north of Blue Anchor Lane on an arched viaduct are the multiple railway tracks of the Brighton and South East Main Lines. The Blue Anchor Lane joins St. James's Road where the viaduct arches to the immediate north west contain the remnants of the disused Spa Road railway station which was the original terminus of London's first railway.
In 2005 a Metropolitan Police report described the area as a crime hotspot for "race crime and youth disorder".
In October 2014 The Blue became a Business Improvement District.