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Bricklayers Arms is the road intersection of the A2 and the London Inner Ring Road where Bermondsey meets Walworth and Elephant & Castle in south London. It is the junction of Tower Bridge Road, Old K
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Layout of the junction, as the immediate forebear crossroads, in 1950. This also shows how the 1750s-built Great Dover Street – having re-assumed the exact course of the Old Kent Road (Tabard Street) – was for a few yards restored in its pre-1750 name of Old Kent Road.
Bricklayers Arms was a railway station in Southwark opened by the London and Croydon Railway and the South Eastern Railway in 1844 as an alternative to the London and Greenwich Railway's terminus at L
Bricklayers Arms
…stood here, in turn related to the prowess of Kent in brickmaking. It is centred 500 metres north-west of Mandela Way which was at the heart of the main goods and locomotive sheds named the Bricklayers Arm depots and similar. A succession of inns, the original name which may have been the documented Bricklayers Arms, served this junction for more than six hundred years…
Lewis Cubitt's passenger station, 1844
Timber viaduct leading to the branch, 1844
Collapsed roof at Bricklayers Arms station following the accident, 1850
Railway Clearing House, 1908