OLD KENT ROAD.
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Girls busily making new flags to grace the Cenotaph on Armistice Day, at the Old Kent Road factory of Edgington’s. New flags are placed on the national shrine every year immediately before Armistice 1929.
Machinists at Edginton's in the Old Kent Road, London, finishing off the flags which are to be draped from the cenotaph in Whitehall on Armistice Day 1938.
Machinists at Edginton's in the Old Kent Road, London, finishing off the flags which are to be draped from the cenotaph in Whitehall on Armistice Day 1938.
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Re: OLD KENT ROAD.
Tustin Estate, from the Old Kent Road, left is Bowness House, which incorporated an arched shopping parade, one of the most distinctive features of the estate. In this image you can see Franks, a cafe, and Patricia's, a hairdresser. Towering above the scene is Grasmere Point, a 20-storey tower block, c1967.
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Re: WILLIAM COOPER LTD
1898 Cooper No 4 Roadster, this 1898 Cooper ‘No 4 Gentleman’s Roadster’ is an extremely rare machine. As far as we know, it is the only known survivor.
Re: OLD KENT ROAD.
The company's premises were on the Old Kent Road S.E. 1. (near Canal Bridge). During the Second World War these premises were extensively damaged in air raids and had to be re-built, the Company continued as coach builders.
The 1955 advertisement shows how the London firm of Glover, Webb & Liversidge proudly traced its history back to 1720, when it was formed as carriage builders and wheelwrights. Archibald Liversidge. Glover, Webb & Liversidge remained as body builders with the coming of the internal combustion engine. In 1932, the company introduced the moving floor refuse collection vehicle. This was fitted with a rubber belt floor that was hand operated. This type of vehicle was especially favoured by some of the central London Boroughs.
The Transport Propeller was an advanced design introduced in 1936 by Glover, Webb & Liversidge. Refuse was loaded into an aperture at the front, then compressed and moved into the cylindrical body by twin Archimedean screws. A moving floor conveyor unloaded the body through barn doors at the rear. A novel feature was a positive ventilation system for the hopper to minimize dust. Ahead of its time, the expense of the Propeller may have ultimately been too much for the market of the 1930s.
The 1955 advertisement shows how the London firm of Glover, Webb & Liversidge proudly traced its history back to 1720, when it was formed as carriage builders and wheelwrights. Archibald Liversidge. Glover, Webb & Liversidge remained as body builders with the coming of the internal combustion engine. In 1932, the company introduced the moving floor refuse collection vehicle. This was fitted with a rubber belt floor that was hand operated. This type of vehicle was especially favoured by some of the central London Boroughs.
The Transport Propeller was an advanced design introduced in 1936 by Glover, Webb & Liversidge. Refuse was loaded into an aperture at the front, then compressed and moved into the cylindrical body by twin Archimedean screws. A moving floor conveyor unloaded the body through barn doors at the rear. A novel feature was a positive ventilation system for the hopper to minimize dust. Ahead of its time, the expense of the Propeller may have ultimately been too much for the market of the 1930s.
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A post by bermondseyboysrus in 2010.
I left Bacon School in 1965 and started work on my fifteenth birthday as an apprentice coachbuilder with Glover Webb and Liversidge in the Old Kent Rd. They built all sorts of vehicle body's, some for Peak Freens, Refuse vehicles for various councils, Tipper trucks, Bullion trucks, Commer van convertions for Securicor and even Mobile toilets. In the paint shop we often had Horse drawn carriages from the Royal household being repainted by hand and varnished.
I left Bacon School in 1965 and started work on my fifteenth birthday as an apprentice coachbuilder with Glover Webb and Liversidge in the Old Kent Rd. They built all sorts of vehicle body's, some for Peak Freens, Refuse vehicles for various councils, Tipper trucks, Bullion trucks, Commer van convertions for Securicor and even Mobile toilets. In the paint shop we often had Horse drawn carriages from the Royal household being repainted by hand and varnished.
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The Old Kent Road at the turn of the 20th century. The pub sign on the right is the Original Dun Cow. This end of the Old Kent Road is probably the least changed end.
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