Old Kent Road is a road in the modern borough of Southwark (London, England). It was previously called Kent Street and used as a road by the Romans and later a route for pilgrims in the Middle Ages. In the 19th century, it was renamed Old Kent Road and the site of several industrial buildings, including the Metropolitan Gas Works.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition: 

Phase 1

Of the Publishers and Authors of Street-Literature. (Volume 1): "The present street literature printers and publishers are, Mrs. Ryle (Catnach’s niece and successor), Mr. Birt, and Mr. Paul (formerly with Catnach), all of the Seven Dials; Mr. Powell (formerly of Lloyd’s), Brick-lane, Whitechapel; and Mr. Good, Aylesbury-street, Clerkenwell. Mr. Phairs, of Westminster; Mr. Taylor, of the Waterloo-road; and Mr. Sharp, of Kent-street, Borough, have discontinued street printing. One man greatly regretted Mr. Taylor’s discontinuing the business; 'he was so handy for the New-cut, when it was the New-cut.'"

Statement of a Prostitute. (Volume 1): "I lodged all this time at a lodging-house in Kent-street. They were all thieves and bad girls. I have known between three and four dozen boys and girls sleep in one room. The beds were horrid filthy and full of vermin. There was very wicked carryings on. The boys, if any difference, was the worst. We lay packed on a full night, a dozen boys and girls squeedged into one bed."

Phase 2

Statement of a Young Pickpocket. (Volume 1)

Statement of a Photographic Man. (Volume 3)