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The original Bricklayers Arms was a coaching inn on the road to Dover, but nowadays the name is used for this traffic roundabout, curiously quiet in this Monday lunchtime view. The Shard at London Bridge overlooks the scene. The Bricklayers Arms name was also used by a nearby railway goods depot which ended its days in 1981 as the principal parcels concentration depot for London when British Rail closed its collection and delivery service. It had become notorious for pilfering on an industrial scale - in 1980 three British Transport policemen were convicted of being in on the racket. That's all history now and the site has become housing.
©Stephen McKay
©Stacey Harris
A view looking west showing one of the paths across the middle of this large roundabout at the junction of the Old and New Kent Roads. See also [[1766292]].
©Stephen Craven
The flyover takes eastbound traffic from the New Kent Road onto the New Kent Road (A2) without having to queue for the roundabout [[1766285]]. See also [[1766308]].
©Stephen Craven
The spring daffodils in the middle of the large roundabout (accessed by subways) bring a bit of cheer to an otherwise gritty urban scene of concrete walls, housing blocks and buses. See also [[1766285]].
©Stephen Craven
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©Stacey Harris
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©Stacey Harris
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©Stacey Harris
Dist:0.1km<br/>Looking east along the New Kent Road (eastbound carriageway) to the flyover onto the Old Kent Road. See also [[1766302]].
©Stephen Craven
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©Stacey Harris
Dist:0.2km<br/>A no 42 bus on its way to Denmark Hill heads into Old Kent Road from the Bricklayers Arms roundabout.
©Stephen McKay
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is the only housing block of any significant height on Prioress Street (one of several in the area named after characters in the Canterbury Tales). I have not yet identified its name.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.2km<br/>An Anglican girls' high school in Southwark. This is the northern end of the site photographed from the other side of Great Dover Street.
©Stephen Craven
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©Stacey Harris
Dist:0.2km<br/>Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm37854
©Roger Templeman

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