# Kennington Road > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kennington_Road > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kennington_Road.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennington_Road > Source revision: 1339419229 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Street in Lambeth, London}} {{confusion|Kensington Road}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}} {{Use British English|date=June 2015}} [[File:lambethnorth.jpg|thumb|[Lambeth North Underground station](/source/Lambeth_North_tube_station) at the north end of Kennington Road.]] [[File:Imperial War Museum Front.JPG|thumb|[Imperial War Museum](/source/Imperial_War_Museum) off Kennington Road.]] '''Kennington Road''' is a long straight road, approximately a mile in length, in the [London Borough of Lambeth](/source/London_Borough_of_Lambeth) in [London](/source/London), England, running south from [Westminster Bridge Road](/source/Westminster_Bridge_Road) (at the junction with [Baylis Road](/source/Baylis_Road) to the north-east) to [Kennington Park Road](/source/Kennington_Park_Road). The road is designated as the [A23](/source/A23_road). Formerly open land, in 1751, a year after [Westminster Bridge](/source/Westminster_Bridge) was opened, it was constructed by the Turnpike Trustees to improve communication from the bridge to routes south of the river Thames. With the growing popularity of [Brighton](/source/Brighton) as a resort in the later eighteenth century it became part of the route there, used by [George IV](/source/George_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom) on his excursions there and later for other [London to Brighton events](/source/London_to_Brighton_events) such as the [London to Brighton Veteran Car Run](/source/London_to_Brighton_Veteran_Car_Run). [Lambeth North Underground station](/source/Lambeth_North_tube_station) is located at the north end of the road at the junction with Westminster Bridge Road. The [Imperial War Museum](/source/Imperial_War_Museum) (formerly the [Bethlem Royal Hospital](/source/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital)) is to the east, in [Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park](/source/Geraldine_Mary_Harmsworth_Park), south of the junction with [Lambeth Road](/source/Lambeth_Road) (A3203). [Kennington Park](/source/Kennington_Park) is to the south. The [Lincoln Tower](/source/Lincoln_Memorial_Tower) built by [Christopher Newman Hall](/source/Christopher_Newman_Hall) in the late nineteenth century in memory of [Abraham Lincoln](/source/Abraham_Lincoln) and the [Emancipation Proclamation](/source/Emancipation_Proclamation) is situated close to the junction with [Westminster Bridge Road](/source/Westminster_Bridge_Road) along with the modernist ''Christ Church and Upton Chapel'' that replaces [Newman Hall's](/source/Christopher_Newman_Hall) Victorian gothic chapel that was destroyed during the Second World War. Though there has been much rebuilding and demolition, many of the grand [Georgian](/source/Georgian_architecture) terraces lining Kennington Road still survive. The [Old Town Hall](/source/Old_Town_Hall%2C_Kennington_Road) for the [Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth](/source/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Lambeth) also still survives.{{NHLE|num=1080399|desc= Old Town Hall (Church of England Children's Society), Kennington Road, SE11|accessdate= 20 February 2022}} == Notable residents == Sir [Julian Corbett](/source/Julian_Corbett), 1854–1922, prominent [British](/source/United_Kingdom) [naval historian](/source/Naval_history) and [geostrategist](/source/geostrategist) of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose works helped shape the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy)'s reforms of that era, was born at Walcot House, 139 Kennington Road.''[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography)'' [Felix Slade](/source/Felix_Slade) (1788–1868), lawyer and collector, lived at Slade House, Walcot Place East, 173 Kennington Road (pulled down sometime after World War 1). He endowed professorships of fine art at Oxford, Cambridge and University College London, and founded the Slade School of Art. The artist [Vincent van Gogh](/source/Vincent_van_Gogh) (1853–1890) lived at Ivy Cottage, 395 Kennington Road, from August to October 1874 and from December 1874 to May 1875.[http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let092/letter.html Letter 92], Note 7, [http://vangoghletters.org/ Vincent van Gogh: The letters]. [Van Gogh Museum](/source/Van_Gogh_Museum), Amsterdam, the Netherlands. [Ray Ellington](/source/Ray_Ellington) (1916-1985), the popular singer, jazz musician, and bandleader, was born Henry Pitts Brown at 155 Kennington Road. The Ray Ellington Quartet achieved fame as the resident band on [The Goon Show](/source/The_Goon_Show), which ran from 1951 to 1960. [Victoria Drummond](/source/Victoria_Drummond) (1894-1978), Queen Victoria's god-daughter and Britain's first qualified female marine engineer, lived at 143, and later at 160 Kennington Road, from 1929 until near the end of her life. The Remarkable Life of Victoria Drummond, Marine Engineer. Published by the Inst of Marine Engineers, 1994. Sir [Michael Grylls](/source/Michael_Grylls), 1934–2001, Conservative politician, lived at Walcot House, 139 Kennington Road. His son, [Bear Grylls](/source/Bear_Grylls), the [Chief Scout](/source/Chief_Scout), lived there as a child. Sir [Christopher Chataway](/source/Christopher_Chataway), 1931–2014, Olympic athlete and politician, lived at 145 Kennington Road. As a child, [Charlie Chaplin](/source/Charlie_Chaplin)David Robinson, ''Chaplin: His Life and Art''. [Penguin](/source/Penguin_Books), 2001. lived at 287 Kennington Road (now marked by a [plaque](/source/blue_plaque)) and at various other locations on the road and in the immediate vicinity, such as 3 Pownall Terrace (since demolished).''[http://www.vauxhallandkennington.org.uk/charliechaplin.pdf Sir Charlie Chaplin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927110246/http://www.vauxhallandkennington.org.uk/charliechaplin.pdf |date=27 September 2007 }}'', [http://www.vauxhallandkennington.org.uk/ Vauxhall, Kennington and the Oval], London, UK.Charlie Chaplin, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=GC-1AAAAIAAJ My Autobiography]''. [Simon & Schuster](/source/Simon_%26_Schuster), 1964. Page 65. In the 19th century this area, near the Canterbury and Gatti's [music halls](/source/music_halls) in Westminster Bridge Road, was much favoured as a residence by performers in the music hall tradition such as Charlie Chaplin's parents. Public houses on Kennington Road such as '[http://www.thethreestags.london The Three Stags]' (which still exists and now has a 'Chaplin Bar'), 'The White Horse', 'The Tankard' (which exists now as the Grand Union) and the famous 'Horns Tavern' (demolished in the 1960s) were also patronised by music hall professionals. South London criminal [Brian "Little Legs" Clifford](/source/Brian_%22Little_Legs%22_Clifford) lived at 126 Kennington Road where he was murdered in 1985.[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1985/dec/18/adjournment-christmas Adjournment (Christmas).] HC Deb 18 December 1985 vol 89 cc350-92, ''Hansard''. Retrieved 10 September 2017. The case has never been solved. == References == {{reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=47056 Survey of London entry (1951)] * [http://www.londontown.com/LondonStreets/kennington_road_c12.html LondonTown.com information] * [http://www.thethreestags.london The Three Stags pub website] {{coord|51.494|N|0.11088|W|type:landmark_region:GB|display=title|format=dms}} Category:Streets in the London Borough of Lambeth --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Kennington Road](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennington_Road) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennington_Road?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.