Green Flag Awards for Southwark Parks
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...Consort Park and Dr Harold Moody Park get grant of £450,000
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...
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...
The River Peck
Peckham’s lost river is hidden for almost all its length; most of it was enclosed in the 1820s and it is now only visible at two points. The River Peck rises on One Tree Hill in Honor Oak and runs down the hill in a culvert to emerge at Harris Girls’...
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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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