It is centred 500 metres north-west of Mandela Way which was at the heart of the main goods and locomotive sheds named the Bricklayers Arm depots and similar.

A succession of inns, the original name which may have been the documented Bricklayers Arms, served this junction for more than six hundred years.

Major brickearth deposits, regionally, are in Kent, particularly on the North Downs dip slope and on the Hoo peninsula, sections of the Medway and Stour valleys.

Its mineral content is critical to its applicability in brickmaking and requires precise proportions of chalk, clay, and iron.

[7] The work done made pedestrian underpasses from adjacent roads into the roundabout heart, as London Underground safeguarded a possible extension route of the Bakerloo line from its terminus at Elephant & Castle tube station.