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Re: OLD KENT ROAD.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:08 am
by kiwi
- 1920-30s
- 1904
Re: OLD KENT ROAD.
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2018 1:22 am
by kiwi
Doe's anyone remember the Astoria when it was like this
It didn't last long Mad Dog Bowl (Old Kent Rd 1978-1979).
- Astoria Cinema, ‘The Mad Dog Bowl’ skating park,1978.
- The former Astoria Cinema, whilst in the guise of the Mad Dog Bowl skating park and Squash Courts in May 1978.
Some added information about this area in 1856. Before the Astoria it was called Watts Terrace, with the street on the right called Caroline Street, now called Sandgate Street. On the other side of Caroline Street on the corner with Old Kent Road was The Horse and Groom Pub, 615 Old Kent Rd, the original address of this pub was 1 Grenada Place, Old Kent Road. In 1938 on that corner, it is recorded as a Candy Store. Could that be the shop in the picture?
- Earlier post by Fosney.
- Clarke’s was in Watts Terrace, before the Astoria Picture House was built
Re: OLD KENT ROAD.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:41 am
by kiwi
Re: OLD KENT ROAD.
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 9:54 am
by kiwi
- Old Kent Road. This part of OKR was known as Sussex Place in the 1860s. Not sure of the date of the picture but with the trams possible the early 1900s? The road to the left at that time was called Bowles Road. Pub on the opposite side of the street to later years.
Re: OLD KENT ROAD.
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 4:35 am
by kiwi
- OLD KENT ROAD
Just a bit of added information.
To the left of the Regal is Leo Street, which is still there 2020.
Leo Picture Palace later renamed the Leo Electric Cinema, was on the corner of Leo Street. It opened in 1912, had 121 seats using wooden benches and was an excellent early example of a shop converted into a cinema. It showed a 45-minute continuous programme for an entry fee of 1d (one old penny). lt closed in 1926 and became a furniture shop and remained as such until the late 1960s, when it was boarded up. The adjacent row of shops was demolished some years later.
Re: OLD KENT ROAD.
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2018 7:43 am
by kiwi
- The Queen with the Duke of Edinburgh Pass Through the Crowds down the Old Kent Road in 1953
Re: OLD KENT ROAD.
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 3:59 am
by kiwi
From the Film Salvage Gang 1958'
- Old Kent Road, Marcia Road left and further on the right-hand side the junction with Surrey Square.
- Old Kent Road, just past Penry Street looking south east. The opening on the left-hand side is to a garage.
Re: OLD KENT ROAD.
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2018 3:24 am
by kiwi
I wasn’t to sure what the Waif’s Festival was, I think this poster explains.
- Old Kent Road c1919, children ready for a meal during a Waif's Festival at St George's Hall
- Waifs and Strays’ Society, the original name of The Children’s Society, was founded in 1881
Re: OLD KENT ROAD.
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 12:17 am
by kiwi
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.
Re: OLD KENT ROAD.
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 2:33 am
by kiwi
- Old Kent Road, Bermondsey, first picture I’ve seen with Walworth’s in it. Albany Road left, Humphrey Street right.