Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
In late October 2018 the Academy opened on its new site next to Peckham Library. It is one of the UK’s leading drama schools, offering degree courses on acting, theatre design and many other aspects of the performing arts. It is also the first degree-awarding...
Jack Harvey VC commemorated
In August 2013 the Government launched a nationwide campaign to honour those who received the Victoria Cross during the First World War with commemorative paving stones near their places of birth. The stones were to be laid on the 100th anniversary of the act of...Award winning young designer makes his base in Peckham 2018
Richard Quinn is an unfamiliar name to most of us at present but this will soon no longer be the case. His debut show for London Fashion Week in February 2018 was attended not only by Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour but also by Her Majesty the Queen. The monarch...Dawn chorus walk 2018
We had our annual 5.00 am saunter through Peckham Rye Park on the 7th April 2018. The dawn was delightful, no wind, but good sound clarity with a waning moon. A tawny owl was heard by an early morning dog walker, over on the eastern fringes of the park. Since the...
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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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