by Diary | Aug 11, 2023 | Made in Peckham, Memory Lane, Natural History, News, Peckham People, Transport, Wartime
Members of The Peckham Society are about to receive the Summer 2023 issue No. 173 of Peckham Society News through their letterboxes.. This new issue is packed with interesting articles on past Peckham and current news as well, including a fascinating history of...
by Diary | Aug 4, 2023 | Made in Peckham, Natural History, News, Peckham People, Transport
Southwark’s excellent parks have retained all 30 of its Green Flag Awards. Councillor Catherine Rose, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods, Leisure, and Parks, said she was “delighted” by the news. She added: “Voted best parks in London in 2022-23, our amazing parks...
by Diary | Jul 14, 2023 | Natural History, News, Transport
Consort Park and Dr Harold Moody Park have been awarded by the Mayor of London £450,000 of Green and Resilience Spaces funding to deliver phase one of the Southwark Masterplan to: merge Consort Park and Dr Harold Moody Park together, including creating more...
by Diary | Jul 5, 2023 | News, Transport, Uncategorised
By the 1870s the St Mary le Strand charity estate stretched for 789 feet along the Old Kent Road. It was covered by about thirty houses and shops; the terrace along the south side was known as St Mary-le-Strand Place. In 1866 the London Brighton and South Coast...
by Christine Camplin | Nov 17, 2017 | Transport
The later nineteenth century was a period of very rapid growth in suburban London, and there was often a misfit between the newly populated areas and the existing public transport system. Sometimes there was an adequate road and rail service already in existence. But...
by peckhamsociety | Aug 19, 2016 | Transport
Bull Yard was fire bombed on 22 October 1940* when 48 London Transport buses, which had been withdrawn due to wartime fuel savings, were lost including eleven of the twelve brand new TF class private hire coaches. Thomas Tilling first occupied the premises in...