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Plaques in Peckham and Nunhead

Plaques in Peckham and Nunhead

by | May 31, 2018 | Peckham People

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...
Charles Joseph Walls, The Wayward Curate

Charles Joseph Walls, The Wayward Curate

by | Apr 23, 2018 | Peckham People

A Peckham trial Until the early 1890s Charles Joseph Walls appears to have led a fairly ordinary life. He was born in late 1861 in Ilkley, Yorkshire, one of ten children to Frederick Walls, a stockbroker, and his wife Maria. By 1867 the family had moved to 18 Fawcett...
George Choumert

George Choumert

by | Nov 20, 2017 | Peckham People

George Choumert (1746-1831), who developed large areas of our local community, came originally from Lorraine in France, but moved to England when he married into the wealthy Fendall family of Bermondsey, becoming a British citizen in 1796. A patent of 7 August 1783,...
George Clift and Frederick Layton Clift

George Clift and Frederick Layton Clift

by | Aug 28, 2017 | Peckham People

Arson in Nunhead George Clift (born 1837) and Frederick Layton Clift (born 1839) were the youngest sons of Isaac Clift and Sarah Ann Layton. Isaac was a skilled cordwainer in Islington with several employees. After he died in about 1840, Sarah married William Lanham,...