Kennington Bowl

Free? Yup, open during normal park hours, ie daylight.

Location: On the side of the park next to Kennington Road. Close to the Kennington Tube entrance.

A strange but fine thing, in Kennington Park ( between Oval and Kennington Tube )

Rectangular bowl with nice carveable corners, 25 feet across by 50 long, ish.

Made in sections and put up in a day. There are car jacks under the corners of each slab, which were (or not ) used to level the surface.Now the slabs are wandering around a bit, leaving a gap up to an inch along half of its length, just at the foot of the tranny on one side. Also there are a few other hazards, esp. the slab that rocks!

All perfectly skateable, especially with soff wheels, No Skool 65s work a treat!

Very mellow, but skanky with it ( cos there is a space underneath much appreciated by junkies etc) the young'uns either ride bikes all-over the bottom, or practice flippy-shit across the part with no gap.

Carving though is where its at, fast continuous figure eights mixed up with whatever you got, great for practicing laybacks and all that oldschool shit.

Although the place gets a strong mix of lippy estate kids on bikes, and everything else, there is a strange courtesy that goes down. Our go, their go.

Not a lot of scope for Major Rad-ness, there is no coping, just the gentle roll-in lip, which is the same all the way round, If you get to Stockwell and find its rammed, this is a fine place to play.