Campaign succeeds – 18th century house listed
The listing of number 58 Peckham High Street at Grade II is the happy conclusion to a long campaign by the Peckham Society to see the timber framed buildings on the High Street recognised and protected. Since English Heritage turned down the Society’s request to list...
Plaque honours Dr Isidore Crown
Our society has campaigned successfully to have the name ISIDORE CROWN MEDICAL CENTRE outside the surgery which is now called DMC Chadwick Road. Dulwich Medical Centre runs the practice that was originally started in Bellenden Road by Dr Crown, who is one of our...
Tube to Peckham given go-ahead
In 2012 people will be able to travel by Underground to and from Peckham. The East London Line will be extended from Surrey Quays to Queen’s Road Peckham, Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill, Clapham High Street, Wandsworth Road and Clapham Junction. We hope that by issue...
Pioneer Health Centre doctors honoured with plaque
An English Heritage blue plaque was unveiled at the original Peckham Pioneer Health Centre at 142 Queen’s Road, Peckham, on 26 March 2009. This was to honour Drs George Scott Williamson and Innes Pearse who founded the centre in 1926. Dr Margaret Pelling of the...
Park and Wildlife Garden Centre win awards
Every year the Government hands out Green Flags to the best parks and open spaces. Peckham Rye Park has received an award for the second year in succession. The flag means that the judges believe it to be a safe and well-maintained place for people to be. A Green...
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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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