Between these years the Romans built a wooden bridge spanning the river Thames, very near to the line of London Bridge stands today. The name Londinium is a mystery, derivation of what it actual meant are still unknown, although there are many fanciful theories. On the opposite shore were the beginnings of Southwark, a name that can be derived from 'the southern defensive work'. Whatever progress was made in the way of buildings was ended in 60AD in the bloody rebellion of the Iceni and Trinovantes of East Anglia and Middlesex, under the fabled Queen Boudicca.
According to Tacitus and I quote : 'The Roman Governer Gaius Suetonius Paulinus decided to sacrifice the single town port in the interest of the province as a whole. Neither the tears nor the entreaties of the stricken citizens bent him from his purpose. He gave the order for departure, taking those who would follow as part of his column, and those who from the weakness of sex, fraility of age, or reluctance to leave their homes, remained within the town port were overwhelmed by the enemy'. So recorded Tacitus.