The lesson you should have learned, of course, is that you shouldn't ride along the Old Kent Road. Nobody should ever, by choice, ever go within half a mile of the Old Kent Road. It has absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever. You need sectioning if you go there willingly. My father worked in a ball bearings factory there when he left school - it caused him to leave London for good.
The lesson you should have learned, of course, is that you shouldn't ride along the Old Kent Road. Nobody should ever, by choice, ever go within half a mile of the Old Kent Road. It has absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever. You need sectioning if you go there willingly. My father worked in a ball bearings factory there when he left school - it caused him to leave London for good.