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New Kent Road is a short road in south London, created in 1751 when the Turnpike Trust upgraded a local footpath. [1] The road starts at Elephant and Castle, and runs eastwards for a few hundred yards to a junction with Great Dover Street and Tower Bridge Road (called the Bricklayer's Arms) before being renamed Old Kent Road (the A2). This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ...
The Hyde Park Toll Gate, London. ...
The Elephant and Castle, commonly shortened to the Elephant, is a major road intersection in inner south London, and is also used as a name for the surrounding district. ...
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Great Dover Street is a road in the borough of Southwark in London, England. ...
Tower Bridge Road is a road in Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark, UK, that runs north to south, and connects the Bricklayers Arms roundabout and flyover at its southern end to Tower Bridge and across the River Thames at its northern. ...
Old Kent Road is a road in south London. ...
The A2 is a major road in the United Kingdom, connecting London with the English Channel port of Dover in Kent. ...
The road forms part of the London Inner Ring Road and as such forms part of the boundary of the London congestion charge zone. New Kent Road is designated the A201. To the north-west, past the Elephant and Castle, this becomes London Road. The London Inner Ring Road is the name commonly given to a collection of major roads that encircle the centremost part of London, United Kingdom. ...
The white-on-red C marks all entrances to the congestion charge zone although in some areas the charge zone is poorly signed, and accidental journeys into the zone can occur For more coverage on London, visit the London Portal. ...
A view of London South Bank University from London Road. ...
 New Kent Road street sign Image File history File links NKR_sign. ...
South side
Shopping Centre
The southern side of New Kent Road starts at the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, where there are some market stalls around the ground floor entrance. Just inside the first floor entrance there is a small grocery kiosk run by and for the area's Ecuadorean community. On Saturdays and Sundays it becomes an informal lunch restaurant and social centre, where very little English is spoken. The Elephant and Castle, commonly shortened to the Elephant, is a major road intersection in inner south London, and is also used as a name for the surrounding district. ...
The pub (26) attached to the Shopping Centre is named after a famous local ex-resident: The Charlie Chaplin. It is said that Chaplin had a martini at the pub during a visit to the area in the 1950s. For other people named Chaplin, see Chaplin (disambiguation). ...
See: Martini (cocktail) - a popular cocktail. ...
The Coronet to Elephant Road The Coronet (28) is marked by a flashing neon sign. The site was first occupied by the Theatre Royal, built in 1872 and destroyed by fire only six years later. Rebuilt as the Elephant and Castle Theatre in 1879, Charlie Chaplin performed there. It was converted to an ABC cinema in 1928. After several more changes of name, it became the Coronet Cinema in 1981. For other people named Chaplin, see Chaplin (disambiguation). ...
The Coronet Cinema closed down in 1999, and reopened as a music, club and film venue following a £2.8-million refurbishment which had restored its Art Deco glory. Following a brief closure in 2003, Oasis, Franz Ferdinand and Justin Timberlake performed low-key gigs there in 2004. The Coronet closed again in 2005, amid rumours of a cash crisis, but some events and live shows have taken place in 2006. For the last few years, the Coronet has hosted EuroShame, the latest incarnation of the annual Gay Shame and Lesbian Weakness event run by Amy Lame's Duckie project as a tongue-in-cheek alternative to London's official Gay Pride event. British rock band Oasis, formed in Manchester in 1991, led by lead guitarist and principal songwriter Noel Gallagher and his younger brother Liam are one of the most successful and prominent British rock and roll bands ever. ...
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Six color rainbow gay pride flag flying over Castro Street, San Francisco, June 2005 The gay pride or simply pride campaign of the gay rights movement has three main premises: that people should be proud of their sexual orientation and gender identity, that sexual diversity is a gift, and that...
Just before the railway bridge, there is a small private mews that is locked shut outside business hours. The mews houses a pet shop, bike shop and a Mexican catering company.
Elephant Road itself is a short road that connects New Kent Road with the Walworth Road. The railway arches on the west side house businesses including a bike shop, the Corsica Studios art space and several businesses selling Colombian and Ecuadorian goods. The whole street, including the children's play area and industrial estate on the east side, and the former Volvo showroom facing New Kent Road, is being redeveloped as a new cinema and residential complex. Walworth Road is a road in the London Borough of Southwark, running from Elephant and Castle to Camberwell Road (which it becomes at Burgess Park). ...
Heygate Estate
 Heygate Estate from New Kent Road From Elephant Road to Rodney Place, this side of the New Kent Road is dominated by the Heygate council estate. Completed in 1974, the estate has aged badly and is due for phased demolition between 2006 and 2011. It will be replaced by low-rise housing. [2] Image File history File links NKR_Heygate. ...
Public housing describes a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. ...
The multi-coloured spherical lights in the trees next to the Heygate were installed in 2005 by the Elephant Impacts project. The project repainted and added feature lighting to a number of bridges and buildings in the area during 2004 and 2005, including the adjoining railway bridges on Walworth Road and Newington Causeway, and to London College of Communication and the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Walworth Road is a road in the London Borough of Southwark, running from Elephant and Castle to Camberwell Road (which it becomes at Burgess Park). ...
Newington Causeway is a road in Southwark, London SE1, between the Elephant and Castle and Borough High Street. ...
London College of Communication The London College of Communication (formerly the London College of Printing, and briefly London College of Printing and Distributive Trades) is one of the five constituent colleges of the University of the Arts London. ...
Metropolitan Tabernacle The Metropolitan Tabernacle is a large Reformed Baptist church in the Elephant and Castle in London. ...
 Two Cariatyds sculpture The Crossways United Reform Church is part of the Heygate. Immediately behind the church, in a locked garden, is a sculpture Two Cariatyds by Henry Poole, originally created in 1897 for the old Rotherhithe Public Library. Image File history File links NKR_Sculpture. ...
Beyond the Heygate Watling House at 128, like Tavern Court (see below), is a new development of flats managed by the Landmark Housing Association. Like most of the new housing in the area, both developments are aimed at first-time buyers who cannot afford to buy on the open market. Residents of the Heygate and other social housing, and those on the social housing waiting list, receive priority. Housing associations in the United Kingdom are independent not-for-profit bodies that provide low cost housing for people in housing need. ...
The distinctive Baroque style building at 172-180 is Driscoll House. It was originally built as a women's hostel in 1913 and is now a somewhat dilapidated hostel primarily aimed at international students. The interiors are mostly unchanged since the building opened. It has been sold to property developers, but was saved from closure in March 2006 by a campaign to make it a listed building. Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens. ...
A TV lounge, 2006 Driscoll House is a hotel at 172 New Kent Road, London SE1, aimed primarily at international visitors. ...
Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...
There is a small green space next to Driscoll House, and beyond Searles Road there is a larger one called Paragon Gardens, named after the building erected on the site in 1787, designed by Michael Searles. It was demolished in the 1890s and replaced with more modest housing and a school. The school has since been converted into a residential building and also named The Paragon. Regency architect Michael Searles (died 1813) was famous as an English commercial architect of large houses, particularly in London. ...
There is some ambiguity over where New Kent Road actually ends and becomes Old Kent Road. The London A-Z marks number 240 just before Darwin Street, and 54 Old Kent Road just after Darwin Street, but poor numbering at the junction of New and Old Kent Roads make it difficult to ascertain the actual physical point at which Old Kent Road begins. Old Kent Road is a road in south London. ...
The cover of the 2004 Edition of the London A to Z The A-Z, or in full, the Geographers A-Z Street Atlas is an atlas of streets in London. ...
North side
Metro Central Heights to Falmouth Road The first few hundred yards of New Kent Road consist of the Elephant and Castle pub and the Metro Central Heights residential block, although both premises have addresses on Newington Causeway, not New Kent Road. Beyond the railway bridge stands Albert Barnes House which is an 18-storey block of council flats owned by the London Borough of Southwark. It was completed in 1964 and contains 99 flats. Metro Central Heights Metro Central Heights is a residential building in the London borough of Southwark. ...
Newington Causeway is a road in Southwark, London SE1, between the Elephant and Castle and Borough High Street. ...
De Beauvoir Estate, De Beauvoir Town, East London The council house is a form of public housing found in the United Kingdom. ...
The London Borough of Southwark is a London borough in London, England. ...
 St Matthews at the Elephant At the Meadow Row intersection stands St Matthews at the Elephant, a contemporary Anglican church and community centre rebuilt in 1993 on the site of the old St Matthews church. The church has particularly good acoustics and hosts musical performances as well as community events and services. The main building is built low, with the separate minimalist iron spire at the street entrance suggesting old and new-style church architecture simultaneously. Image File history File links NKR_church. ...
The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ...
83 New Kent Road is a residence for students at the nearby London South Bank University, with 81 students living in shared flats. London South Bank University is a central London university with around 20,000 students and 1,700 staff in the London Borough of Southwark. ...
Falmouth Road to Harper Road
 The bench in Falmouth Road Park The small Falmouth Road Park opened in March 2006 [3]. The bench is made from timber from a London plane tree that once stood on the Tower of London Wharf, and features designs created by local children. Image File history File links Falmouth_Rd_park. ...
Next to the park, Tavern Court (95) is a new six-storey residential building managed by Landmark Housing Association. Tavern Court opened in 2005 on the site of the County Terrace Tavern, a pub that closed in 2003. The Museum of London Archaeology Service surveyed the site in May 2004 and found that "There was no evidence to confirm that this site was occupied until the post medieval period. It appears that this low lying area ... was fields until the development of the County Terrace public house and adjoining properties during the 19th century. A thick layer of top soil containing 18th and 19th century material including broken bricks, clay pipe stems and 19th century pottery was found." [4] Housing associations in the United Kingdom are independent not-for-profit bodies that provide low cost housing for people in housing need. ...
The Museum of London Archaeology Service began as the Department of Urban Archaeology (DUA) in the early 1970s. ...
 Brotherhood of the Cross and Star The 1888 red brick church behind Tavern Court is the former Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, a listed building built in mixed Queen Anne and Romanesque revival styles. English Heritage comments that "[the] combination of different features and materials [is] calculated to produce a most variable and picturesque composition. An early instance of the Queen Anne manner applied to a church or chapel" [5]. Since 1991, the church has been the main London home of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, a worldwide church organisation based in Nigeria and led by Olumba Olumba Obu. Worshippers wear distinctive white robes, with women also wearing a wimple-like headdress. Their beliefs have been described as "an interesting offshoot of orthodox Christianity, and combines the beliefs of varying religions, including ancient Indian philosophy and Islamic teachings" [6]. Image File history File links Cross_and_Star. ...
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Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...
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Romanesque St. ...
Under the footbridge across to the Heygate Estate, there is a small public green space called David Copperfields Garden. A plaque erected in September 1931 by the Dickens Fellowship explains that this was the place where in the Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield stopped "in the Kent Road ... at a terrace with a piece of water before it, and a great foolish image in the middle, blowing a dry shell". The pond has been filled in as a flower bed, and the small statue has lost both its shell and, more recently, its head. Dickens redirects here. ...
Illustration by Phiz: My First Fall in Life David Copperfield or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (which he never meant to be published on any account) by Charles Dickens, first published in 1850. ...
Beyond Harper Road A block of shops after Harper Road begins with Pole Position (155-157), a motorcycle workshop and racing team HQ. Counter services at the Post Office (179) were transferred in Spring 2006 to the Great Dover Street branch of Costcutter, although the shop retains the name. A sign of the multi-cultural nature of the area is that this block of businesses ends with an Indian restaurant, a Polish deli, an Ethiopian restaurant and a Chinese take-away. Harper Road is a road in south London, England. ...
Great Dover Street is a road in the borough of Southwark in London, England. ...
Costcutter Logo Costcutter is a franchise banner in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland under which there are supermarkets and local and urban convenience stores. ...
The BP petrol station has a FoodStore convenience store attached, which was previously a Safeway. Like all Safeway stores that were taken over by BP, it retains the Safeway instore signage and shopping baskets, and the external signage uses a font and style that mimics Safeway's. BP plc (LSE: BP, NYSE: BP, TYO: 5051 ), originally British Petroleum, is a British energy company with headquarters in London, one of four vertically integrated private sector oil, natural gas, and petrol (gasoline) supermajors in the world. ...
Safeway was a chain of 479 supermarkets and convenience stores in the UK that is now part of Wm Morrison Supermarkets. ...
The last building on the North side of New Kent Road is St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School. The school opened in 1903 and is for girls aged 11 to 18.
 Indian, Polish and Ethiopian businesses Image File history File links Polish_and_Ethiopian. ...
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