The congregation of St George the Martyr church returned home on Palm Sunday - after an 18-month closure for restoration - with a procession down Borough High Street.
Nineteenth century French poetry luminaries Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud met in 1871, at the invitation of Verlaine himself, after the younger poet, aged sixteen had sent the twenty six year old writer some of his poems.
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