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5 unusual facts about Peckham


From the Makers of...

The final page chronicles the band's history year by year, from their beginnings in Peckham, South East London, in 1962 through to the set's release in 1982.

John Battersby Crompton Lamburn

Most of Lamburn's source material was gleaned from popular and semi-popular material, such as the writings of Jean Henri Fabre, the Peckhams, O.H. Latter, and the like, and he credited such material properly, if informally.

John Luck

Luck was born in Peckham, Surrey, England, on 18 March 1840, one of seven children of Alfred Luck, a warehouseman, and his wife, Clementina Golding.

Lynton Brent

In addition to his film career, Brent also wrote a number of literary works, notably Lesbian Gang Though little recognized when first published in 1964, it has achieved notoriety among a niche queer audience in Peckham, England.

The Peckham Experiment

George Scott Williamson (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978), a husband and wife team, opened the Pioneer Health Centre in an area - Peckham, south east London, which was chosen because "this populace roughly represents a cross-section of the total populace of the nation with as widely differing a cultural admixture as it is possible to find in any circumscribed metropolitan area" - in a house in Queen's Road SE5 in 1926.


All Saints Church, Peckham

Two further services, BBC Songs of Praise services, "Peckham Praise" and "Urban Hope" were subsequently recorded and broadcast in September 2010 and February 2011.

Anthony Peckham

Eleven years later, in 2001, the Michael Douglas thriller Don't Say A Word, Peckham's second screenplay to reach production, premiered.

In 2009, Peckham wrote the screenplays to two high-profile releases: the Clint Eastwood-directed Nelson Mandela biopic Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, and Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey, Jr..

Bakerloo line

The three stations are located at Old Kent Road close to Burgess Park, at Peckham Road close to Camberwell and Peckham High Street, and at Peckham Rye Park close to Straker's Road.

Bola Agbaje

Her play Take a Deep Breath and Breathe, a loose adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, opened at the Ovalhouse Theatre in 2013 and transferred to the CLF Art Cafe in Peckham, running there from 13–31 August 2013.

Earl Beatty

He represented Peckham in the House of Commons as a Conservative from 1931 to 1936 and briefly served as Under-Secretary of State for Air in Winston Churchill's 1945 caretaker government.

Finsbury Pavement

The company later established a large manufacturing plant in Peckham, which became the United Kingdom's first manufacturing base of H. J. Heinz Company in 1905.

George G. Barnard

In August 1869, during the struggle for the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, Judge Rufus W. Peckham appointed Robert H. Pruyn as Receiver, but Barnard vacated Peckham's order, and appointed James Fisk instead.

Hannah Peckham

Hannah Peckham (born 14 November 1980) is a British presenter, most notable for working in the United Kingdom on Quiznation and Pop the Q on TMF (owned by the same company that produces Quiznation, Optimistic Entertainment).

Inner South London Line

The South Cross Route, one side of the London Motorway Box, the innermost ring road of the unbuilt 1960s London Ringways plan, would have paralleled the line between Wandsworth Road and Peckham Rye.

It Never Rains...

At the police station, Grandad tells his grandsons why he's been arrested: it was way back in 1936, and the Trotter Family were very poor, so Grandad and his friend Nobby Clarke hitchiked all the way to Southampton, got a boat to Tangier, and after a failed attempt to join the French Foreign Legion, became gun-runners during the Spanish Civil War until they were captured, and Nobby was tortured, before the pair got home to Peckham.

Juan Radrigán

Sue Dunderdale’s production of ‘Las Brutas’ (‘Beasts’) premiered at Theatre 503 in September 2011, and in October-November 2013, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Chilean coup, Robert Shaw’s new translation of ‘Hechos Consumados’ (‘Children of Fate’) starring Sian Reese-Williams, will premiere at The Bussey Building in Peckham.

Llywelyn the Last

On 28 December 1282 Archbishop Peckham wrote a letter to the Archdeacon of Brecon at Brecon Priory, in order to;

London Farmers' Markets

The first Farmers' Market set up by LFM in London was in Islington in 1999, quickly followed by Farmers' Markets in Notting Hill, Blackheath, Peckham and Swiss Cottage.

London Tramlink

Cross River Tram is a proposed new system in Central London from King's Cross and Camden to Peckham and Brixton; however, this project is currently on hold for lack of funding.

Maria Rye

Encouraged by the earl of Shaftesbury and The Times newspaper and with the financial support of William Rathbone, M.P., she purchased in 1869 Avenue House, High Street, Peckham, and with her two younger sisters, in spite of public opposition and prejudice, took there from the streets or the workhouses waifs and strays from the ages of three to sixteen.

Matt Peckham

Peckham also edits and maintains the official site of Eisner-nominated British writer Mike Carey and American artist/writer Peter Gross, which includes his annotations to Carey and Gross' Vertigo (DC Comics) comic The Unwritten.

Obalende Suya Express Restaurant

The restaurant has two branches, one, a takeaway located 43 Peckham High Street, Peckham, not far west from Peckham Library and a restaurant located at 523 Kingsland Road in Dalston, Hackney.

Oxonhoath

Oxon Hoath, a former manor and Royal Park at West Peckham, Kent.

Peckham Boys

The GMG gang also warned Peckham residents against snitching.

Rick Peckham

Peckham is currently still broadcasting Lightning games with the Florida-based Sun Sports network, as well as occasionally doing play-by-play for the NHL on NBC.

Saugus Field

After Massachusetts legalized pari-mutuel wagering in 1934, a group of area businessmen and government officials led by Henry A. B. Peckham, John J. Mullen, Charles Friend, Harold Dodge, Frederick Willis, William Landergan, and James E. McElroy attempted to bring horse racing back to the site.

St Michael's Church, East Peckham

Sir Roger Twysden referred in his writings to the family plot at East Peckham church.

Stacy Keach, Sr.

He and his wife, the former Mary Cain Peckham, were members of the Peninsula Players summer theater program during the 1930s.

Theologian of the Pontifical Household

While all Masters of the Sacred Palace were Dominicans, several members of other orders were Lectors of the Sacred Palace (e.g. Peckham O.S.F., who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1279).

Viroqua ultima

It is likely that the Peckham's derived the name from Viroqua, Wisconsin, as they named genera after unrelated locations on several other occasions.

Wheeler Hazard Peckham

Peckham was born in Albany, New York, on New Year's Day, 1833 to Rufus Wheeler Peckham and Isabella Adoline; his mother died when he was 15.


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