''History of the Old Kent Road'' is a

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by the

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artist

Adam Kossowski Adam Kossowski (5 December 1905 – 31 March 1986) was a Polish artist, born in Nowy Sącz, notable for his works for the Catholic Church in England, where he arrived in 1943 as a refugee from Soviet labour camps and was invited in 1944 to join ...

. It is on the exterior of the former North Peckham Civic Centre in

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External links

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Article by Lynn Pearson containing information on the Old Kent Road Mural

The History of the Old Kent Road
photoset on Flickr

has launched a campaign to protect murals such as this.

* Details of a Stunning Tiled Mural," Look Up London, 19 January 2021 Murals in London Peckham Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Southwark {{Public-art-stub