Old Kent Road health centre and a number of primary and secondary schools. Officials have also suggested the development of a "green spine" of parks and green spaces along the mostly disused Surrey Canal. Old Kent Road is the first property square on the British Monopoly board, priced at £60 and forming the brown set along with the similarly working-class Whitechapel Road. It is the only square on the board in South London and south of the Thames. The road makes several appearances in literature. In Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield", the titular character runs down the road trying to escape from London to
Old Kent Road of Coopers Road. The station was demolished for redevelopment in 2014 and reopened the following year. The Old Kent Road Baths were built in 1906. According to "Modern Sanitation", they were the only public baths in London with Turkish bath facilities at the time. The baths were designed to include two swimming pools, each measuring by . In 1913-4, the baths were used by 188,336 private bathers, 14,687 of which used its Russian, Turkish, or special electric baths. The 1923 Municipal Year Book noted the "great success" of Turkish and Russian baths. Unlike many places in London, the Old Kent