Up Aloft In The Old Kent Road. Risky work on the rope while fixing a travelling cradle for steeplejacks to paint the side of one of London's largest gasholder - at the South Metropolitan Company's gasworks at Old Kent Road, London, SE. The gasholder, damaged by a DA bomb is now being renovated and over three and a half tons of paint is being applied. Photo shows: Steeplejack A.J. Hornsby climbing into position to fix a travelling cradle. London, England. 05 September 1946.