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Bowles Road - Old kent Road
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:21 pm
by fosney
Re: Bowles Road - Old kent Road
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:36 pm
by fosney
Posted by Jimmica
fosney can u tell me where that garage was in okr i dont recall
Re: Bowles Road - Old kent Road
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:37 pm
by fosney
jimmika
The Old Kent Road Bus Garage was in Bowles Road opposite the old Public Baths in Old Kent Road on the corner of Marlborough Road now a derelect site.
The actual garage stood on the site if the now B&Q store site roughly. The 1916 Ordnance Survey Map shows the garage which backed on to the Surrey Canal on its way to Peckham.
The depot was opened in 1874 by London Tramways horse drawn, later taken over by LCC Tramways and then Vanguard Buses and in 1908 by London General Omnibus Company and was closed by London Transport on 25 November 1958. There seems to be no evidence that the garage ever existed, only the photographic evidence.
Re: Bowles Road - Old kent Road
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 8:56 pm
by kiwi
Air raid damage at Old Kent Road garage in Bowles Road. Part of the garage roof has been demolished. A large mound of rubble is visible; this is mostly comprised of bricks but also includes a large metal girder which has been almost snapped in two. 1940.
- Bowles Road bus garage,1940