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An Apollonaut travel guide
A ship among the warehouses.
An introduction to Bankside, where the Golden Hinde lies in St Mary Overie Dock, close to London Bridge.
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Read the dock
The Golden Hinde lies in St Mary Overie Dock on Cathedral Street, on the south bank of the Thames in Southwark, a few minutes from London Bridge.
A guide can give context without turning a place into a backdrop. Notice how the narrow dock opens to the river, and how the buildings around it crowd close to the water.
Timber and rigging
The reconstruction was built in Devon to the size of an Elizabethan galleon, with painted planking, masts and rigging in the style of the 16th century.
Begin with a detail and ask who built it, who sailed in it and how it is kept afloat today. A photograph alone cannot tell you that.
A Golden Hinde chapter
The Golden Hinde shows one side of Bankside: a reminder of the river as a working highway to the world.
Look at the meeting of the two: an Elizabethan ship in a modern city, a few steps from London Bridge.
Make room for context
Pair this reading with the ship’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents the people who run them.
Read at the source
Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
