Peckham
Peckham shown within Greater London
OS grid reference	TQ345765
London borough	Southwark
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LONDON
Postcode district	SE15
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
European Parliament	London
UK Parliament	Camberwell and Peckham
London Assembly	Lambeth and Southwark
List of places: UK • England • London

Coordinates: 51°28′17″N 0°03′45″W / 51.4714, -0.0625

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Peckham has never been an administrative district, or a single ecclesiastical parish in its own right, but it developed a strong sense of identity in the 19th century when Rye Lane was one of the most important shopping streets in south London. Ecclesiology (from Greek grc ἐκκλησίᾱ ekklēsiā, "congregation church" and grc -λογία -logia) is the study of the A parish is a Local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in episcopal or presbyterian churches The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar South London is the southern part of London, England. The area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes

The area known as Peckham covers a large geographic area of South London and takes in many diverse communities. A traditional London working class community now coexists with communities that have their origins in Bangladesh, the Caribbean, China, India, Ireland, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey, Eastern Europe and Vietnam. Working class is a term used in academic Sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe depending on context and speaker those employed in specific fields or types ( Bengali: বাংলাদেশ inc-Latn Bangladesh) officially The Caribbean (ˌkærəˡbiən kæ'rəbiən Cariben|Caraïben or Caraïben; Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Caribe is a Region consisting China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Nigeria, officially named the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal Constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches Eastern Europe is a general term that refers to the Geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the European continent. Vietnam (ˌviːɛtˈnɑːm Việt Nam) officially As well as these communities there has been a steady gentrification of some of the areas to the south of Peckham and this has meant an influx of cafés, wine bars, niche shops and artists' studios. Gentrification, or urban gentrification, is the change in an Urban area associated with the movement of more affluent individuals into a lower-class

A few highly publicised crimes have tarnished the area's reputation. Cases such as the murder of Damilola Taylor in November 2000, the shooting of eight or nine (contemporary reports vary) people queuing outside Chicago's nightclub in the summer of 2000 and three murders in February 2007 (one of 15 year old Michael Dosunmu in his bedroom)^[1] have given the impression that Peckham is dangerous and lawless. Damilola Taylor ( December 7, 1989 &ndash November 27, 2000) was a Nigerian schoolboy who was murdered in the UK November 2000: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - However, incidents like this do not reflect the lives of a large majority of the people living in the area. ^{[2] [3]}

History

A Peckham landspace looking south from the celebrated library. Despite the intimidating reputation of North Peckham, South Peckham is an engaging and diverse district. (October 2005)

'Peckham' is a Saxon place name meaning the village of the river Peck, a small stream that ran through the district until it was enclosed in 1823. The Saxons or Saxon people were a Confederation of Old Germanic tribes. A small stream that was enclosed in 1823 These days part of this stream can still be seen on the west side of Peckham Rye Park. Year 1823 ( MDCCCXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Archaeological evidence indicates earlier Roman occupation in the area, although the name of this settlement is lost. Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410

Peckham appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Pecheham. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey It was held by the Bishop of Lisieux from the Bishop of Bayeux. Lisieux is a commune in the Calvados département in the Basse-Normandie region of France. Bayeux (bajø is a commune in the Calvados département, in Normandy in northwestern France. Its domesday assets were: 2 hides. The hide was a unit used in assessing land for liability to " Geld " or land tax in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th centuries It had land for 1 plough, 2 acres of meadow. The plough ( American spelling plow; both plaʊ is a Tool used in Farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed A meadow is a field vegetated primarily by Grass and other non- Woody plants. It rendered £1 10s 0d. ^[4]

The manor was owned by King Henry I who gave it to his son Robert, Earl of Gloucester. Henry I (c 1068/1069 – 1 December 1135) was the fourth son of William I the Conqueror, the first King of England after the Norman Robert 1st Earl of Gloucester (c 1090 &ndash October 31, 1147) was an Illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, and one When Robert married the heiress to Camberwell the two manors were united under royal ownership. John of England probably hunted at Peckham and local anecdotes suggest that the right to an annual fair was granted to celebrate a particularly good day's sport. John (24 December 1167 &ndash 19 October 1216 reigned as a King of England from 6 April 1199 until his death A fair is a gathering of people to display or trade produce or other goods to parade or display animals and often to enjoy associated Carnival or Funfair entertainment The fair grew to be a rowdy major event lasting three weeks until its abolition in 1827.

Peckham became popular as a wealthy residential area by the sixteenth century and there are several claims that Christopher Wren had local links. Sir Christopher Wren ( 20 October 1632 &ndash 25 February 1723) was a 17th century English Designer, Astronomer By the eighteenth century the area was a more commercial centre with extensive market gardens and orchards growing produce for the nearby markets of London. "Market garden" redirects here For the World War II operation see Operation Market Garden. An orchard is an intentional planting of Trees or Shrubs maintained for Food production. Local produce included melons, figs and grapes. The formal gardens of the Peckham Manor House, rebuilt in 1672 by Sir Thomas Bond were particularly noticeable and can be seen on the Rocque map of 1746. The Manor House was sacked in 1688, as its then owner Sir Henry Bond was a Roman Catholic and staunch supporter of James VII and II. The house was finally demolished in 1797 for the formation of Peckham Hill Street, as the Shard family developed the area. Today Shard's Terrace, the block that contains Manze's Pie and Mash shop, and the western side of Peckham Hill Street represent this Georgian planned expansion.

The village was the last stopping point for many cattle drovers taking their livestock for sale in London. The drovers stayed in the local inns (such as The Red Cow) while the cattle were safely secured overnight in holding pens. Most of the villagers were agricultural or horticultural workers but with the early growth of the suburbs an increasing number worked in the brick industry that exploited the local London Clay. The London Clay is a Marine geological formation of Ypresian (Lower Eocene Epoch c

In 1767 William Blake visited Peckham Rye and had a vision of an angel in a tree. Year 1767 ( MDCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827 was an English poet, painter, and Printmaker. An angel is a Spiritual Supernatural being found in many Religions Although the nature of angels and the tasks given to them vary from tradition to tradition In 1993, at the request of the Dulwich Festival, artist Stan Peskett painted a mural of Blake's vision next to the Goose Green playground in East Dulwich. East Dulwich is a district of London, England in the London Borough of Southwark.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century Peckham was a "small, quiet, retired village surrounded by fields". Since 1744 stage coaches had travelled with an armed guard between Peckham and London to give protection from highwaymen. Year 1744 ( MDCCXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a For other meanings see Stagecoach (disambiguation. A stagecoach (also called diligence) is a type of four-wheeled enclosed The rough roads constrained traffic so a branch of the Grand Surrey Canal was proposed as a route from the Thames to Portsmouth. The Grand Surrey Canal was a Canal constructed in south London during the early 19th century The Thames ( is a major River flowing through southern England. History See also History of Portsmouth There have been settlements in the area since before Roman times mostly being offshoots of Portchester, which The canal was built from Surrey Commercial Docks to Peckham before the builders ran out of funds in 1826. History The sparsely populated Rotherhithe peninsula was originally wet marshland alongside the river For the game see 1826 (board game. Year 1826 ( MDCCCXXVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display The abbreviated canal was used to ship soft wood for construction and even though the canal was drained and backfilled in 1970 Whitten's timber merchants still stands on the site of the canal head. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

In 1851 Thomas Tilling started an innovative omnibus service from Peckham to London. 1851 ( MDCCCLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Thomas Tilling Ltd, later known with its subsidiary companies as the Tilling Group, was one of the two huge groups which controlled almost all the major bus operators in the Tilling's buses were the first to use pre-arranged bus stops, which helped them to run to a reliable timetable. His services expanded to cover much of London until his horses were requisitioned for the army in World War I. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All

Before Peckham Rye station was opened in 1865 the area had developed around two centres: north and south. In the north, housing spread out to the south of the Old Kent Road including Peckham New Town built on land owned by the Hill family (from whom the name Peckham Hill Street derives). See also A2 road (Great Britain Old Kent Road is a road in South East London, England and forms part of Watling Street, the Roman In the south, large houses were built to the west of the common land called Peckham Rye and the lane that led to it.

Manze's Eel and Pie House, Peckham. A noble survivor of a tradition that is now dying out in the real East End. (October 2005)

With the arrival of the railway and the introduction of horse-drawn trams about ten years later, Peckham became accessible to artisans and clerical staff working in the City and the Docks. Housing for this socio-economic group filled almost all the remaining fields except the Rye. In 1868 the Vestry of Camberwell St Giles bought the Rye to keep it as common land. Year 1868 ( MDCCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap A vestry is a storage room in or attached to a church or Synagogue. Responding to concerns about the dangerous overcrowding of the common on holidays the Vestry bought the adjacent Homestall Farm (the last farm in the area) in 1894 and opened this as Peckham Rye Park. Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

With the influx of younger residents with money to spend Rye Lane became a major shopping street. Jones & Higgins opened a small shop in 1867 (on the corner of Rye Lane and Peckham High Street) that would become the best known department store in south London for many years. Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting It closed in the 1980s.

The late nineteenth century also saw the arrival of George Batty, a manufacturer of condiments, whose main business stood at Finsbury Pavement. Finsbury Pavement is a street connecting Moorgate with City Road in the London Borough of Islington. The company's Peckham premises occupied 19 railway arches. It was acquired by H. J. Heinz Company in 1905 as their first UK manufacturing base.

The southern end of Peckham was the location for the railway line that once served The Crystal Palace in Sydenham. The Crystal Palace was a cast-iron and Glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London, England, to house the Though the line was eventually dismantled due to the collapse of the embankment into the gardens of Marmora Road it is still possible to see large sections of it. The flats on Wood Vale and the full length of Brenchley Gardens trace its route.

Marmora, Therapia, Mundania and Scutari Roads all derive their curious names from locations during the Crimean war. The Crimean War, also known in Russia as the Eastern War (Восточная война Vostochnaya Vojna) (March 1854–February 1856 was fought Close by to them is the Aquarius Golf Course which is located over an underground reservoir. When the reservoir was built it was the largest covered reservoir in the world.

Camberwell Old Cemetery, on Forest Hill Road, is a later example of the ring of Victorian Cemeteries that were built to alleviate the overcrowding of church yards that was experienced with the rapid expansion of London in the 19th Century. The Stone House at its main entrance was used in the filming of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane (released 1970). Joe Orton ( 1 January, 1933, Leicester, England - 9 August, 1967, Islington, London) born John Entertaining Mr Sloane is a play by Joe Orton. It was first presented in London at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964 by It was gutted by fire in the mid 1970’s and rebuilt some years later. Camberwell Old Cemetery did not have the grandeur of nearby Nunhead Cemetery, which was one of the original London necropoles, and once full it was replaced by Camberwell New Cemetery on Brenchley Gardens. Nunhead Cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London, England.

Brenchley Gardens park follows the route of the old line to The Crystal Palace culminating at the High Level station. The Crystal Palace was a cast-iron and Glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London, England, to house the The park runs behind Marmora road and the remains of the embankment then continues along Wood Vale where flats were built on it. The line was closed in 1954 following a decline in its use after the destruction of the Crystal Palace in 1936 and due to slippage in the structure of the embankment. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. ^[5]

In the 1930s George Scott Williamson and Innes Pearse opened the Pioneer Health Centre in Queens Road. They planned to conduct a large experiment into the effect of environment on health. 'The Peckham Experiment' recruited 950 families at one shilling a week. The Peckham Experiment took place between 1926 and 1950 initially generated by rising public concern over the health of the Working class and an increasing interest in preventative The members joined something like a modern sports club with facilities for physical exercise, games, workshops and socialising with no mandatory programme. The centre moved into a purpose built modernist building by the architect Sir Owen Williams in 1935. Sir Evan Owen Williams (20 March 1890 &ndash 23 May 1969 was born in Tottenham, London, England, son of Owen Tudor Williams and Mary Roberts and died Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

North Peckham was heavily redeveloped in the 1960s with concrete housing characterised by high walkways. This became a sink estate by the 1980s with a marked rise in gun crime and illegal drug dealing. A sink estate is a British Council housing estate characterised by high levels of economic and social deprivation At the end of the 1990s a drastic plan was enacted to demolish the entire estate and replace it with low-rise dwellings and eliminate the no-go area that had become such a high-profile embarrassment. Less dramatic changes have also flowed from extensive investment in the housing and streets throughout Peckham.

In the early 1990s Peckham was a nexus of underground music, partly due to a large squat in a disused, 2 floor DHSS building near Peckham High Street. Already famous among mods from the 1980s for the cover shot of a pictorial biography of 1960's mods, which featured mods from the 60's on their customised scooters outside the then Camberwell labour exchange in Collyer place Peckham. In 1989 The squatters adopted the name Dole House Crew and along with another local group of squatters called the "Green Circus", held regular gigs/parties in the building every second Saturday of each month. Upstairs was a large live gig room, and downstairs was a rave music DJ set up. Also in the large squat were 2 bars, a vegan cafe selling cups of tea and vegeburgers, and a chill out lounge. The sound system was provided by various hired sound rigs until early 1990 when grebo's Zounds Alive PA system became the permanent house/and free festival sound system, (referring to Reknaw some of whose members also lived in and helped create the squat (Dread messiahs K and B of DHS and Sea?). During the week, any empty rooms were utilized for bands or artists to work out of. Some notable bands who regularly played gigs at the Dole House were: The Levellers, Poisoned Electric Head, Citizen Fish, Back To The Planet, The Sea,The Dave Howard Singers,One Style MDV,Primary Colours, Totentanz,Radio Mongolia Ruff Ruff and Ready, Watt Tyler, the Suicidal Supermarket Trolleys, Tottenham AK/47's, Dread Messiah, Coitus, 2000DS, Mongoloid Droid, and Radical Dance Faction (RDF). The Levellers are a popular English rock band influenced by punk and traditional English music. Citizen Fish are a Ska punk band that have been together since 1990 Back To The Planet are a band from London, England. History Back To The Planet (BTTP formed while Squatting together in Peckham Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre (French Danza Macabra (Italian or Totentanz Radical Dance Faction were a band from Berkshire, England. History Radical Dance Faction (RDF were founded by Chris Bowsher in Hungerford Up to 1000 people could be squeezed into the squat,and from Feb 1990 it was regularly filled to capacity (and beyond). In spite of the fact that it was not going to last forever the people involved put on as many cheap and varied shows as they could even expanding to provide free music at various free festivals in the 1990s and also providing much assistance to the then budding deptford urban free festival (later the Fordham park urban free festival). They moved on to many other South East London venues eventually after the Peckham Dolehouse was evicted in late Oct 1990.

On the same principles, the Spike Surplus Scheme was established in 1998 on a fly-tipped, vandalised site on Consort Road. In the tradition of free spaces, it provides rehearsal/recording facilities, health/martial arts space and a community garden. Always running on a free-where-possible or donations level, the facilities have been used by a wide variety of local talent including Fear of Fear, The Influence, Rubella Ballet, Fill Planet, Monkey Rush, Headjam, Pain, Dan Sharp, Excentral Tempest, AOS 3, Critical Practice, Unity and Devision, Pamoja, The Slackers, Kaya, Nubian Sunshine, AYO 42, Speakers Corner, The Impossibles, Bartosz, Pinstickers, Rhythms of Resistance Samba Band, Lisa Lora, Do-bop-sh'bam, Chris Liberator, Guy Planet, Saddam and the Look-alikes, Daisy, Manu Chau, Jamie Woon, Nouvelle Croix, Sarah Bear, Captain Hotknives, Tarantism (alongside many many more). Other users have been community garden permaculture groups, martial arts and various alternative therapy groups. The space is presently negotiating with the council for its survival (May 2008).

Regeneration

The award-winning Peckham Library (October 2005)

The European Union has invested heavily in the regeneration of the area; partly funding the futuristic, award-winning Peckham Library, a new town square and swathes of new housing to replace the North Peckham Estate. The European Union ( EU) is a political and economic union of twenty-seven member states, located primarily in Peckham Library is a Library and community building situated in Peckham in south-east London. Throughout the area state funding is being provided to improve the housing stock and renovate the streets. This includes funding for public arts projects like the Tom Phillips mosaics on the wall of the Peckham Experiment restaurant and the South London Gallery. Tom Phillips CBE (born 24 May 1937) is an English artist He was born in London, where he continues to work The South London Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Camberwell, south London

The main shopping street is Rye Lane, and the large Peckham Rye Park is nearby. Peckham Rye is an open space and road in the London Borough of Southwark in London, England.

The oldest surviving building in Peckham is 2 Wood's Road, built in 1690.

Peckham in fiction

Peckham was the setting of the popular television sit-com Only Fools and Horses, although the series was filmed elsewhere. Only Fools and Horses is a British Television sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan, and made and broadcast by the BBC

Jones & Higgins

With the opening of a small shop in 1867 along what was then known as South Street (Rye Lane), this locally iconic department store grew into a popular and fashionable place to shop up until its eventual close in 1981. A department store is a Retail establishment which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a single predominant merchandise line. Jones & Higgins buildings covered one side of the street at the bottom end of Rye Lane and often attracted many famous faces (notably Diana Dors and Violet Carson) to open sales events and turn on Christmas lights. Diana Dors ( October 23, 1931 &ndash May 4, 1984) was an English actress and Sex symbol. Violet Carson OBE ( 1 September 1898 – 26 December 1983) was a British actress. The stores survived the Blitz but sadly not the change in shopping habits. The Blitz was the sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941 in World War II. After being taken over by Houndsditch Warehouse, an East London discount department store, it closed down.
Next door to Jones & Higgins once stood another Peckham landmark, Holdrons, department store. This store was bought by Selfridges and taken over by the John Lewis Partnership during the Second World War. Selfridges is a chain of Department stores in the United Kingdom. The John Lewis Partnership is a major United Kingdom retailer which operates John Lewis Department stores Waitrose Supermarkets and World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
The sites of Jones & Higgins and Holdrons were both eventually cleared to make way for the Aylesham Shopping Centre.

Notable residents

• Janith Aranze Bollywood actor
• Stephen Bourne attended Oliver Goldsmith School
• Robert Browning attended Reverend Thomas Ready’s School
• Michael Caine attended Wilson's Grammar School
• Simon Callow, Actor
• Oswald Chambers Church minister and author (lived near Rye Lane 1889-1895)
• Lorraine Chase was discovered in a café by Peckham Rye station
• Peter Collinson FRS, Scientist
• Tony Curran, Actor
• Chris Eubank, Boxer
• Rio and Anton Ferdinand, footballers. Steve Bourne is a computer scientist most famous as the author of the Bourne shell (sh which is the foundation for Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 or 1728 &ndash 4 April 1774 was an Anglo-Irish writer poet and Physician known for his Novel The Vicar Robert Browning (7 May 1812 - 12 December 1889 was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of Dramatic verse, especially Dramatic monologues made him one of Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr, CBE (born 14 March 1933 better known by his screen name Michael Caine, is an Oscar - and BAFTA Wilson's School is a boys' Grammar school in Wallington, in the London Borough of Sutton, UK Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English stage, Film and Television Actor Oswald Chambers (born July 24, 1874 in Aberdeen, Scotland; died November 15, 1917 in Egypt) was a prominent Lorraine Chase (born July 16, 1951) is an English Actress and model. Peter Collinson (January 1694 &ndash August 11, 1768) was a Fellow of the Royal Society, an avid gardener and the middleman for an international Anthony "Tony" Curran (born 13 December, 1969) is a Scottish actor Chris Eubank (born Christopher Livingstone Eubanks on August 8 1966) is a retired boxer and English celebrity who held the WBO Middleweight Rio Gavin Ferdinand (born 7 November 1978 in Peckham, London) is an English footballer. Anton Julian Ferdinand (born February 18, 1985 in Peckham, London) is an English footballer.
• Julius Francis, Boxer
• Oliver Goldsmith was a teacher at Dr Milner's Academy
• Antony Gormley, Artist
• Matt and Luke Goss of Bros
• Alfred Hugh Harman founded his business in Peckham before moving to Ilford
• Elise Harris, Comedian
• Hollow Man AKA Gigz Rapper
• Joe Grind Rapper
• Anish Kapoor, Artist
• Vernon Kay, TV Presenter
• Marlon King, Footballer
• Norma Major(nee Wagstaff) was educated at Peckham School for Girls where she was Head Girl. Julius Francis (born December 8, 1964 in Peckham, London, England) is a former British Heavyweight champion boxer - who participated Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 or 1728 &ndash 4 April 1774 was an Anglo-Irish writer poet and Physician known for his Novel The Vicar Antony Gormley OBE RA (born 30 August 1950 is an English sculptor. Matthew Weston Goss (born September 29 1968) is a British singer and songwriter most famous for being the lead singer of 1980s pop group Bros Luke Damon Goss (born 29 September 1968 is an English Singer and Actor. Bros (from the common abbreviation of the word 'brothers' and pronounced 'bross' Alfred Hugh Harman ( 1841 - May 23, 1913) was a pioneer of photography and founder of Ilford Limited. Elise Harris is a British Comedian, Writer and Filmmaker, born in Pontypool, Wales and based in Peckham Anish Kapoor (born 1954 is a Turner Prize winning sculptor. Kapoor was born in Bombay ( Mumbai) India, and attended the Vernon Charles Kay (born 28 April 1974 is a British television presenter DJ and former model from Bolton, Greater Manchester, England Marlon Francis King (born 26 April 1980 in Dulwich, Greater London) is an English -born Jamaican professional football Dame Norma Major Lady Major, DBE (née Wagstaff previously Johnson born 12 February 1942) is the wife of Sir John Major, the former British
• Peter Mansfield attended Peckham Central, then William Penn School, when it was in Choumert Road. Sir Peter Mansfield, FRS, (born 9 October 1933) is a British Physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
• Andy McNab, Soldier and Writer
• Parminder Nagra star of Bend It Like Beckham and ER
• Tom Phillips, Artist
• Zoë Pollock born in Peckham, known for the song "Sunshine On A Rainy Day"
• James Henry Pullen , Victorian autistic savant
• Harold James Ruthven Murray was born near Peckham Rye
• Steve Chandra Savale (also known as Chandrasonic) (guitarist and composer) Asian Dub Foundation
• Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary
• Barbara Steveni, Conceptual Artist
• Edgar Wallace attended Reddin's Road School
• Gillian Wearing Artist
• Rosie Wilby, Comedian and musician

Transport and locale

Nearest places

• Bermondsey
• Brockley
• New Cross
• Camberwell
• Dulwich
• East Dulwich
• Newington
• Nunhead
• Walworth
• Denmark Hill

Nearest railway stations

• Peckham Rye railway station
• Queens Road Peckham railway station

External links

• the Peckham Town Centre Management Group website
• The Peckham Society
• Peckham Community Website
• Peckham Vision - a local community group
• Ideal Homes: Suburbia in Focus
• Southwark Council Local History
• Article about the Peckham Experiment = Pioneer Health Center
• Cllr Fiona Colley, councillor for East Peckham & Nunhead
• Cllr Mary Foulkes, councillor North East Peckham
• Labour in Southwark
• Pecknam.com - Blogging adventures around SE London

References and notes

• John D Beasley, The Story of Peckham, (London: London Borough of Southwark, 1976)
• John D Beasley, Who Was Who In Peckham (London: Chener Books, c1985)
• H. J. Dyos, Victorian Suburb: A Study in the Growth of Camberwell (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1961)
• Joseph Priestley, Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain, (Wakefield: Richard Nichols, 1831)