We welcome letters from members and those with an interest in Peckham. Where possible we will reply, but not necessarily by return. As you will see below many letters appear on our website and many from our members are also published in our quarterly magazine, Peckham Society News.
All the letters published in Peckham Society News have now been indexed. The Letters Index is cross referenced with family names, as well as all subjects mentioned, to help you find friends and relatives, as well as old memories of Peckham.
Reunion for Evacuees
Air raid shelters
Bombing and evacuation
Perkins family of Peckham
Reg Harris (1920-1992), cyclist and Reg Harrison’s cycle shop
Vivian Woodward (1879-1954), amateur footballer
The “Five Miles Club”
Nunhead Football Club
Nunhead (aka Wingfield House) Football Club
Rye Lane shopping
Sternhall Lane
Arthur's Newsagents and R.O. Harrison
Bournemouth Road market?
Strudwick’s fish and chips, Commercial Way
Gulliano’s sweet shop, East Dulwich
Peckham Manor School rugby
Peckham Manor School
Peckham Central School
Ivydale Road School
Collingwood School
Cator Street School
Walmer Castle
Duke of Wellington
Dog Pond
Cinemas and swimming
Odeon cinema
Dance Bands of the Thirties and later
St Chrysostom's
Salvation Army
Rye Lane Baptist Chapel
Peckham Rye Mission
Christ Church, Old Kent Road
Manure collectors!
Elcot Avenue Scrapyard