Until 1988 Kingstonian football club's stadium used to be at the north end of Burton Road - now, like the Sopwith factory, given over to modern housing.
Kings Road used to have a parade of shops, from newsagents to DIY to greengrocers to glaziers. Most have also been converted to domestic use - Spraggs is one of the last survivors.
Canbury Ward also has a "lost" river (the Latchmere Stream, which follows Acre Road, cutting the corner between Burton Road and Kings Road) and occasionally floods.
Kings Road saw London's very last trolleybuses in 1962.
The Burton Road street parties have been a regular thing since they were revived for the Golden Jubilee in 2002.
Burton Road's "smart hedges" made the local news a few years ago, when the council took an agricultural-type flayer to some of them, making them very-definitely-not smart!