Burgess Park kiln stone plaque

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# Burgess Park Kiln Stone Standing here on Albany Road, you're occupying one of South London's most industrious intersections—a place where raw clay and brick materials arrived by barge along the Walworth Canal, ready for transformation in the kiln that once dominated this very spot. From the mid-1...

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Burgess Park, Albany Road

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Barges unloaded the raw materials to be processed in the kiln at wharves along the canal. This kiln was in use until the 1960's. It was left here as a memorial to the building workers of a century and a half of London's growth