Rochester Way

Gilbourne Way (five houses) and Boughton Road (twelve houses). When the full width of the new road was completed in the early 1930’s all the houses were numbered for Rochester Way and the original names disappeared.

508 - 520 Rochester Way 1968

Congreve Road looking onto traffic on the Rochester Way

Trams at Well Hall Roundabout, Rochester Way

Rochester Way was built in the 1920s through the Progress Estate, dividing it in two.

This section leaving Well Hall roundabout became a well-known traffic black spot, as heavy traffic on this main road into Kent caused chaos until the Rochester Way Relief Road was opened in the 1980s. (ideal-homes.org.uk)

Rochester Way - Tram

Rochester Way

Rochester Way / Well Hall Roundabout 1952

Rochester Way towards Well Hall Roundabout

Via ideal-homes.org.uk - Rochester Way c1980

Via ideal-homes.org.uk - Rochester Way c1980

In 1953 the Rochester Way had ramps built to offset the bad camber on a particularly nasty series of curves

Rochester Way 1953

Children still played nearby though

Red Indian Braves on the war path Rochester Way.
Malcolm Birt, Stephen Birt, Brian Wheeler, David Allen, Barry Allen
and Tony Lutman are the braves and Wendy Wheeler is the squaw. (undated)

Rochester way resurfacing work being carried out overnight in May 2017