Old Kent Road Old Kent Road Old Kent Road is a major thoroughfare in South East London, England, passing through the London Borough of Southwark. It was originally part of an ancient trackway that was paved by the Romans and used by the Anglo-Saxons who named it Wæcelinga Stræt (Watling Street). It is now part of the A2, a major road from London to Dover. The road was important in Roman times linking London to the coast at Richborough and Dover via Canterbury. It was a route for pilgrims in the Middle Ages as portrayed in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, when Old Kent Road
Roman Road, London the 1920s. The shop was taken on in 1939 by George Kelly, from the Kelly Pie and Mash dynasty which had shops throughout London. In the mid 1950s the shop was bought by Bill Kingdon, George’s brother in law. The Kelly extended family also had a pie and mash shop at 310 Roman Road (now renumbered to 600). Today, the shop at 526 is run by Sue, Bill’s daughter, and her son, Neil. Since opening in 1912, this ice cream parlour and café on the corner of the Roman and Grove Roads served the community for almost 100 years before