Plaque honours Dr Isidore Crown
Our society has campaigned successfully to have the name ISIDORE CROWN MEDICAL CENTRE outside the surgery which is now called DMC Chadwick Road. Dulwich Medical Centre runs the practice that was originally started in Bellenden Road by Dr Crown, who is one of our...
Tube to Peckham given go-ahead
In 2012 people will be able to travel by Underground to and from Peckham. The East London Line will be extended from Surrey Quays to Queen’s Road Peckham, Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill, Clapham High Street, Wandsworth Road and Clapham Junction. We hope that by issue...
Pioneer Health Centre doctors honoured with plaque
An English Heritage blue plaque was unveiled at the original Peckham Pioneer Health Centre at 142 Queen’s Road, Peckham, on 26 March 2009. This was to honour Drs George Scott Williamson and Innes Pearse who founded the centre in 1926. Dr Margaret Pelling of the...
Park and Wildlife Garden Centre win awards
Every year the Government hands out Green Flags to the best parks and open spaces. Peckham Rye Park has received an award for the second year in succession. The flag means that the judges believe it to be a safe and well-maintained place for people to be. A Green...
Co-operative House re-opens
An old Co-op site has been modernised thanks to a multi-million pound redevelopment project. The Royal Arsenal Co-op Society’s shop in Southwark known as Co-operative House is being converted into luxury flats. Local activist John Beasley, who edits the Peckham...
Livesey Museum closes
Our Society deplores the decision made by Southwark Council to close Livesey Museum. It originally opened as a library on 18 October 1890 and was a gift from George Livesey, Chairman of the South Metropolitan Gas Company, to Camberwell Vestry which ran local affairs...
Magazine wins national prize
Our editor travelled to Harrogate in his native Yorkshire on 3 May to receive a prize of £100 for our society. This was the reward for Peckham Society News being the runner-up in a national competition run by The David St John Thomas Charitable Trust in association...
Neglected buildings to undergo a £120K lift
Thousands of pounds are to be spent on improving a gateway to Peckham and the old library. Groups such as the Peckham Society have been asking for years for the early 19th century buildings on Shard’s Terrace to be done up. Since the new state-of-the-art library in...
Local people flock to Peckham Vision
On 21 January and again in March 2006 the Peckham Society through Peckham Vision arranged a historical event and meeting about the future of Peckham town centre. The venue was innovative as it was held in a CIP (Copeland Industrial Park) building which in the 19th...
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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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