Southwark
Southwark is Syndicate's industrial heart: factories, docks and rows of brick workers' housing on the south bank. The Templar Octavia Plumb oversees it in 1868, and its riverside wharves and Waterloo station are the stage for several key memories.
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Good to know
- Templar overseer: Octavia Plumb.
- Templar Hunts: Phillip Beckinridge and Myrtle Platt.
- Blighter strongholds: The Mint and Jacob's Island.
- Bounty Hunts: Anna Abramson and Albie Vassell.
- Factories: Blackburn Bellows, Hightower Coal and Southwark Spinning Mill.
- Secrets of London discs 9, 12, 24 and 27 are in this borough.
What the borough is like
Smokestacks, warehouses and loading docks fill the riverfront. Waterloo station and London Bridge station are both in the borough.
Liberating Southwark
Work through Plumb's two Templars, her two strongholds, two bounties and three factories. When the gang war comes, the messenger notes that Plumb only accepted the challenge reluctantly; if she is already dead, her Blighters fight without a leader. Killing her in Gang War: Southwark gives the borough to the Rooks.
Places to know
College Wharf hosts Alexander Graham Bell's Cable News memory, where you rescue his crew and recover his cable reels. The Starrick Warehouse comes into play in The Last Maharaja side story, and Jacob's End of the Line memory takes him into Waterloo station.
Cable NewsCable News is a short side trip for Alexander Graham Bell: his telegraph cables never arrived, and an intercepted wire says the cargo is held at College Wharf. Bell also fits your gauntlet with a dart launcher for a hallucinogenic serum before you go.- End of the LineEnd of the Line ends Sequence 5 at Waterloo station, where Jacob has to reach Pearl Attaway's fortified train carriage before Starrick's men collect the engines. You free a hostage station chief, clear the crowd and find a weak point in the carriage roof.
- One Good DeedOne Good Deed has Evie protect omnibus builder Ed Bayley in Southwark, where Blighters want to force him to build buses for them now that Attaway and Millner are gone. You fight off a chase, then steal his factory deed back from a gang leader.
- Albie VassellAlbie Vassell is a Southwark bounty for a street racer who has killed rivals to win. Kidnap him mid-argument with a reluctant sponsor and deliver him to Abberline alive.
- Anna AbramsonAnna Abramson is a Southwark bounty hunt for the ringleader of a gang of child pickpockets. Kidnap her and take her to Abberline alive.
- Death Stalks the ColonelDeath Stalks the Colonel is the third Dreadful Crimes case: Louis Prescott, a former army colonel who runs a munitions factory in Southwark, has been shot through the heart at noon. Several shots were fired at that moment, and you have to work out which bullet killed him.
- Gang War: SouthwarkThe Southwark gang war pits the Rooks against Octavia Plumb's Blighters, who accept the challenge only reluctantly. Win the brawl and defeat Plumb to claim Southwark.
- Jacob's IslandJacob's Island is a Southwark gang stronghold in a disease-ridden district long known for villains and radicals. Keep the lookouts quiet and kill the leader undetected for full sync.
- Myrtle PlattMyrtle Platt is a Southwark Templar hunt inside a Templar warehouse on the edge of the borough, where explosives and weapons are stored for the Blighters. Kill her using hanging barrels for full sync.
- Off the RailsOff the Rails is the sixth Last Maharaja memory: you arrive at Southwark station for a briefing just as the British India Company's men drive off with the train hideout. You commandeer Duleep Singh's carriage, catch the train and fight the hijackers on its roof.
- Phillip BeckinridgePhillip Beckinridge is a Southwark Templar hunt against a brewery owner known for working his staff to the bone and selling beer that is making the borough ill. Kill him using a carriage for full sync.
- Stalk the StalkerStalk the Stalker is the first Train Hideout memory: Agnes MacBean has a nervous young man following her on her delivery rounds, and Evie shadows them both through Southwark. It turns out the stalker is the least of Agnes's problems, as Blighters are lining up to kill her.
- The MintThe Mint is a Southwark gang stronghold for Octavia Plumb's Blighters, on the site of an old mansion once used for minting coin. Burn the heist plans and stop lookouts calling reinforcements for full sync.
- College WharfCollege Wharf is a Southwark loading dock on the Thames. You go there for Alexander Graham Bell in Cable News, freeing his crew and recovering seized cable reels, and later return to help set an ambush on Templar dynamite smugglers.
- Jacob's IslandJacob's Island is one of Octavia Plumb's two Blighter strongholds in Southwark, a disease-ridden riverside slum. Clearing it turns it into a Rook stronghold.
- London Bridge stationLondon Bridge station is the oldest railway terminus in London, opened in 1836, at the southern end of London Bridge in Southwark.
- Starrick WarehouseThe Starrick Warehouse is an abandoned Southwark warehouse used to hide stolen Punjabi gold in The Last Maharaja. In A Golden Path you help Duleep Singh hijack the gold carriage.
- The MintThe Mint is one of Octavia Plumb's two Blighter strongholds in Southwark. Taking it hands the site to the Rooks.
- Waterloo stationWaterloo station is a busy Southwark terminus on the south bank. In End of the Line, Jacob goes there to take back the engines and kill Pearl Attaway.
- Secret of London #09Secret of London #09 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in Southwark. Open it and you take disc #09, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that has the speaker shaving, swigging from a horn and lounging in an oak-beamed inn.
- Secret of London #12Secret of London #12 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in Southwark. Open it and you take disc #12, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that threatens to grind the Man in the Moon to powder and break his staff.
- Secret of London #24Secret of London #24 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in Southwark. Open it and you take disc #24, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that sends Mad Maudlin ten thousand miles on dirty toes to find Tom.
- Secret of London #27Secret of London #27 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in Southwark. Open it and you take disc #27, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that drains a boiling cauldron in a toast to every rogue.