Images: Alexander Christie Designed by Scottish architect Alexander Thomson, this Grade 2 listed Victorian Gas Lamp used to be in the centre of a traffic island at the bottom of Old Kent Road. In 2010CONTINUE READING
Category: Cultural and Historical Site
Livesey Exchange New Site
Named after the Victorian industrialist George Livesey – who set up a quasi-cooperative energy company, the South London Gasworks, off the Old Kent Road –Livesey Exchange is a new cultural destination for Old Kent Road,CONTINUE READING
Asylum Chapel
Images: Alexander Christie “Asylum is an artist led organisation based in Caroline Gardens Chapel in Peckham, London. It was founded in 2010 and is directed by artists Jo Dennis and Dido Hallett.Maverick Projects uses the chapelCONTINUE READING
231 Old Kent Road
Images: Alexander Christie In 2018 Action OKR started a crowdfund campaign to set up ‘Urban Room Old Kent Road’. The plan was for a dedicated space where residents, businesses, researchers, planners, the council, developers andCONTINUE READING
Burgess Park
Images: Alexander Christie Burgess Park is one of London’s biggest parks. But its significance is due not so much to its size as to its history, and the unusual way it was created. Inspired byCONTINUE READING
Canal Grove
Images: Alexander Christie through the gate a row of early nineteenth century houses facing what used to be the Surrey Canal. Opened to the Old Kent Road in 1807 the canals main purpose was to transport cargo, primarily timber toCONTINUE READING
Livesey Exchange Old site
Photography: Alexander Christie 60 vacant garages on the Ledbury Estate on Old Kent Road were planned to be transformed into the Livesey Exchange providing spaces for making, training and cultural programmes. Workshops, studios, multifunctional spaces andCONTINUE READING
Former Livesey Library
Images: Alexander Christie “The building was commissioned by George Livesey in 1890 as a library for workers of the local gasworks and later entrusted to the people of the old parish of Camberwell, extending as far asCONTINUE READING
Stompie Garden Tank
Images: Alexander Christie Stompie Garden is a community green space in Bermondsey, South East London. Our legendary T-34 Soviet tank celebrates art and peace over division. Follow them and the new tank artworks on twitter.CONTINUE READING
Compressor Space Exhibition
Images: Alexander Christie “Compressor is a series of exhibitions and events staged in a bespoke, street-facing window vitrine in the Weber Industries studio. The project is run by Anna Bunting-Branch, Nick Tudor and Gavin Weber with a focusCONTINUE READING