OLD KENT ROAD.

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kiwi
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Re: OLD KENT ROAD.

Postby kiwi » Fri Jan 28, 2022 5:07 am

Leroy Street bottom left. Aberdour Street next street right. The larger road right is Tower Bridge Road.
Barnaby Buildings was left of Leroy Street. The building right of the flyover, is St Saviour’s & St Olave’s School. The building to the left is Paragon School in Searles Street.
Old Kent Road flyover, looking down the New Kent Road towards the Elephant & Castle, Leroy Street bottom left.  X..png
Old Kent Road flyover, looking down the New Kent Road towards the Elephant & Castle.
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Re: OLD KENT ROAD.

Postby GSLondon » Sun Jan 30, 2022 12:17 pm

Some pics of the Livesley library on Old Kent Road from 2020, including the statue of the man himself and the original Chaucer Tales mosaics from the Bricklayers ‘ Arms Library. Apparently there was an intact Edgingtons shop front preserved there too for many years but the council had taken it away for storage?
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Re: OLD KENT ROAD.

Postby kiwi » Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:25 pm

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Re: OLD KENT ROAD.

Postby kiwi » Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:38 pm

Old Kent Road, Geo. Carter & Sons.  X..png
Old Kent Road corner with Marcia Road left, the shop of George Carter at 211-217 Old Kent Road, opposite East Street.  X..png
George Carter at 211-217 Old Kent Road, corner with Marcia Road left.
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Re: OLD KENT ROAD.

Postby GSLondon » Sat Apr 23, 2022 4:01 pm

Sharing a
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picture of the original Old Kent Road library with Great Dover Street in the distance

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Re: OLD KENT ROAD.

Postby kiwi » Thu May 19, 2022 4:48 am

This is 644 Old Kent Road, the same as on the card, possibly the same location but it could be that numbers changed at some time. Around the early 1880's on this corner was a laundry, same building? seems a great looking building for a laundry, today it is a bookie.
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Not sure of he date.
5 Old Kent Road, 2021, number 644, Ethnard Road right. X..png
Old Kent Road, 2021, number 644, Ethnard Road right.

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Re: OLD KENT ROAD.

Postby kiwi » Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:56 pm

Old Kent Road, c1952. Commercial Way and the Kentish Drovers Pub right, to the left is the South Metropolitan Gasworks. Asylum Road on right just past the Police Box.  X..png
Old Kent Road, c1952. Commercial Way and the
Kentish Drovers Pub right, to the left is the
South Metropolitan Gasworks. Asylum Road on right just
past the Police Box. The 38-tram ceased in July 1952.

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Re: OLD KENT ROAD.

Postby kiwi » Tue Aug 30, 2022 11:05 pm

Old Kent Road, Thomas A Becket Pub right.  1  X.png
Old Kent Road, Thomas A Becket Pub right.

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Re: OLD KENT ROAD.

Postby kiwi » Mon Sep 05, 2022 4:19 am

Opposite each other across OKR. I can remember May Smith but not F.W. Smith, I wonder if they where related. :?:
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Old Kent Road, East Street right.
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Re: OLD KENT ROAD.

Postby kiwi » Sun Sep 11, 2022 3:05 am

Before the Astoria Cinama.
The King’s Cinema Palace was built in 1913, with 600-seats. Early in its short life it went into receivership. In 1915 it was re-opened and re-named the Palasino Electric Theatre. The Palasino Electric Theatre was demolished in 1928 and, on an expanded site, arose the 2,899-seat Astoria Old Kent Road.
7  Old Kent Road 1915, Palasino Electric Cinema, where the Astoria was.  X..png
Palasino Electric Cinema, 1915.


1930 Astoria Cinema built on the site with 2,899 seats.
1939 Acquired by Odeon chain.
1953 Renamed Odeon Astoria.
1968 Cinema closed and left empty.
1978 Became an indoor skateboard park.
1984 Building demolished.
Now a Retail supermarket

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Old Kent Road, Astoria.

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Astoria Cinema.


7 Old Kent Road 2022, site of the Astoria Cinema opposite. Looking from Peckham Park Road.  X..png
Old Kent Road 2022, site of the Astoria Cinema opposite.
Looking from Peckham Park Road.

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Old Kent Road. June 20th, 1939, Astoria.  X..png
Old Kent Road. June 20th, 1939, Astoria.
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