Our Walk, it seemed much longer

Kennington Station

Greek Cafe for Coffee

Wall Decor

Carole meets our guide

Kennington Road

No climbing this drain pipe!

What?

Coffee Wagon in Church Grounds

Pensioner's Feet

"One Elephant"

Where Charlie was Christened

Shop Window

The Strada Tower

Was a Police Station

The Work House water tower now lived in

The Workhouse: Because of his family's financial ruin, due to father's drink and gambling,  Charlie and his older brother Sydney were sent to workhouses and schools for destitute children multiple times.

The Admin Building of Lambeth Workhouse....

....now The Cinema Museum

Somebody works/ lives here

Still derelict part of the Workhouse

Was a pub just outside the gates

The developed part

Everything rebuilt but the pubs

Tresco House, retirement flats

"The Dog House" PH

The Durning Library

A glimpse of the Oval Cricket Ground

39 Methley Street where the family lived and mother worked

Factories and workshops

A crane remains

Where Charlie sat and was copied later in Hollywood films

The Great Kennington Stink Pipe??

Edinburgh House Kennington

 Chaplin began performing at an early age, touring music halls and working as a stage actor. At age 19, he was signed by the prestigious Fred Karno company, which took him to the United States.

287 Kennington Road father, girl friend, baby and two brothers lived here in two rooms

"The Jolly Gardeners PH" owned by his father until gambled away

While touring America, he was scouted for the film industry and joined Keystone Studios in 1914.

"The Queen Head PH" also owned by his father at one time......

... the hatch where Charlie learned to tap dance

Victorian style

"The Rose" PH  on the Albert Embankment where I lunched

A 2mx2m painting in the Rose

Opposite the Rose

Vauxhall Bus Depo

On Braganza Street