OLD KENT ROAD.

[kiwi]

Old Kent Road, Milk Dairy c1908, photograph showing the cows in their milking stalls at Mr Birkbeck's Dairy down the Old Kent Road.

[jj01]

Wellington Baths, Old Kent Road. This building was erected in 1905 at the Old Kent Road junction with Marlborough Grove. The baths had two swimming pools, slipper baths, Turkish baths, Russian vapour baths and a public wash house. The building was destroyed by bombing during WW2.
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Always wondered what the baths looked like as we played on the bomb site that still had the baths full of water in the 60's as kids ,great playground.

[kiwi]

Flag makers Sam Ward and Joyce Griggs apply the Royal cypher to a decorative banner being prepared ahead of the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2nd June '53.

Old Kent Road, Edgington c1952

Old Kent Road 1952, John Edgington & Co flag factory.

[kiwi]

Old Kent Road, Transport Engineering Ltd, c1933.

[kiwi]

Old Kent Road, The Castle Pub, Beano.

[kiwi]

Old Kent Road, Bricklayers Arms.

[kiwi]

There you are Brian (briancreasey44) you can just about see the trains going around.

Old Kent Road.

[briancreasey44]

There you are Brian (briancreasey44) you can just about see the trains going around.
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Hi Ray,

Yes, that’s exactly how I remember it!
Judging by the chaps attire, I’d say that the picture was taken in the 60’s?
The last time I visited Stamps, was probably in the late 70’s… the crammed shop was dark, a bit chaotic and very dusty.
The shelves were loaded with old stock; by the late 70’s, I think it was mostly turned over to model railways.
They must have closed their doors for the last time in the early to mid 80’s.

[kiwi]

Old Kent Road, RACS Butchers Shop, c1960. The lady is Joan Eagle, the man left believed to be Fred Gregory.

[kiwi]

Old Kent Road, Waleran Buildings, Queen’s Coronation Party, 1953.