Old Kent Road

I did the walk from my house to Old Kent Road on 23/5/2011 and only decided to do a blog as a friend suggested it.

So found the weather was going to be a beautiful day and would be a perfect day to start my monopoly adventure.

This would be one of my longest journeys to walk and worked out it would take me 2 and a half hours to walk there.

When Monopoly was first made, most of the first line of properties are in East London which back in the 40's and 50's were considered more poorer then West London. Old Kent Road was seen as a place where you could rent properties which were rare in those days and which only lower class families would live. This is one of the reasons why it is only £60 on the board but these days it is more then that, I would give a figure but I don't want to look silly.

So I set off and decided to go up through the famous King's road which is now on the new and modern London Monopoly, through Sloane Square, pass Buckingham Palace and over Westminster Bridge.
This was one of the first times I had set foot in East London as I have had no reason to visit it in the past so I was a bit 'iffy about stepping out of line and kept myself to myself.

Some of the things I saw along the way were eye opening but interesting at the same time, I went past at least 10 closed down pubs which is a shame as the pub industry is one of the worse affected due to the recession. I also saw the remains of a gay pub which was burnt to the ground with the rainbow flag still flying although you had to look carefully to see it due to the amount of damage done, it's rare to see gay pubs and never a nice thing to see things like this but some people are narrow minded.
I also managed to achieve one of my small goals and that was to find the number 1 bus for London, the other thing I want to tick off my list is find a 999 bus as that is the biggest possible number of Z99, if you see one let me know!!

I arrived at Old Kent Road and it looked a normal road till I saw a giant Tesco Megastore which would certainly help it raise it's price from £60! Apart from that Old Kent Road looked like a normal street with a few markets.

First one down and loads more to go