Peckham Society receives Southwark Civic award
The Peckham Society received the Honorary Liberty of the Old Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell from the Mayor of Southwark, Cllr Barrie Hargrove, on Wednesday 21 April. The award was actually made in 2020 but the presentation had to be postponed for obvious reasons....
The Free Sugar Ladies Of Peckham
In 2007 the Museum of London Docklands at Canada Water opened a permanent gallery, ‘London, Sugar and Slavery’. Amongst the extensive information on the anti-slavery campaign is a display of teapots and bowls overprinted with anti-slavery messages, and in the...
The Spitta family of Peckham
In W H Blanch’s book Ye Parish of Camerwell: “The wealthy family of Spitta lived [in Peckham House] in great style, giving fêtes, or what would now be termed garden-parties, to their neighbours, and dispensing charity with no niggard hand amongst the poor of the...
Plaques in Peckham and Nunhead
Peckham and Nunhead have a wide range of plaques commemorating the local significance of a person, event or building. These permanent records are often fixed to a building where an individual lived or worked. The major plaque-awarding organisations have different...
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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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