Bowling back in Peckham Rye Park
Peckham Bowls are now managing the Bowling Green and Pavilion in Peckham Rye Park offering community bowls. They aim to deliver a more relaxed, accessible bowls experience for all ages and abilities. No membership needed and no dress code, bookings can be made, turn...
Rye Lane (2023) wins Best Comedy at National Film Awards 2023
Rye Lane, a film based in Peckham won Best Comedy after being nominated for eight titles at the National Film Academy Awards. The rom-com film, set in Peckham and Brixton, and premiered at PeckamPlex received nominations across various categories, including Best...MontyWatch/MontyVillage, Montpelier Road SE15
We are a group in Montpelier Rd, SE15 who have always had a small but strong community through parts of our Road. Altogether we have between 120 and 150 households with several houses converted to Houses of Multiple Occupation, quite a few A & Bs as they are...
OUT AND ABOUT IN PECKHAM AND NUNHEAD – Pocket parks – Lyndhurst Square
Lyndhurst Square, off Lyndhurst Way, is a very small square in the Holly Grove Conservation Area. It is truly a ‘pocket park’ and very different from the Community Playground of Leyton Square described in our Autumn issue. It is little more than a small strip of...The making of the Peckham landscape
Peckham Society News Summer 2020 Issue 161 Our area has had a fascinating prehistory. Peckham evolved between two rivers which flow into the River Thames: the Ravensbourne (and its tributary the Quaggy) to the east and the Effra to the west. The River Peck rose in the...
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The Peckham Society
The Peckham Society is the amenity society for Peckham and Nunhead, SE15. It exists to encourage interest in and to care for the surrounding area.
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Come to a Community Workshop to discuss the local buildings and spaces that you love! This is part of a project to gather a Community List of the buildings and spaces that are of social, historic, cul...
The 22nd of June is the 75th anniversary of the sad bombing of the corset factory on the corner of Peckham Rye and Nunhead Lane in June 1944. 22 people, mostly young women, died in this incident. The Peckham Society encourages people to remember the unexpected & terrifying ‘Doodlebug Summer’ in Peckham and Nunhead, seventy five years ago, in June and July 1944.![]()
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People can visit the commemorative sign that marks the site of this tragedy, designed and written by the Peckham Society. It is also possible to see the density of local bombing in SE15 online:![]()
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