Group   

Peckham Society

Categories: Community / Clubs, History

A society that exists to encourage interest in, and to care for the environment and history of Peckham and the surrounding area.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Peckham Society

Creations i

David Sheppard

Lord David Sheppard, 1929 - 2005, England cricket captain, Bishop of Woolwich...

Read More

Nunhead Lane V1 rocket

In memory of the 24 people who died from a V1 missile strike at this site on ...

Read More

William Griggs

Pioneer photo lithographer, William Griggs, 1832 - 1911, lived and worked her...

Read More

William Harnett Blanch

Historian, William Harnett Blanch, 1836 - 1900, lived here. Peckham Society

Read More

Other Subjects

Henry Herbert Gwynn

Henry Herbert Gwynn

Henry Herbert Gwynn is 3rd from the right of the nine boys standing in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born in 1899 in Newington, Walworth, Surrey, the youngest of the six children of Ja...

Person, Children, Community / Clubs, Tragedy

2 memorials
Paddington Waterways and Maida Vale Society

Paddington Waterways and Maida Vale Society

Conservation Society. Founded by Colonel Peter Flower and Lord Norwich.It has successfully opposed several unsympathetic building schemes in the area.

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society

Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society

The society's website doesn't specify when it came into existence. It contains a number of 'journals', the oldest of which is dated 1980, so maybe it dates from then.

Group, Community / Clubs, History

1 memorial
Dolphin pub

Dolphin pub

We found the building on Google Street View dated 2012 but by 2014 it was gone. From the design of the building and the dolphin relief we'd guess it was built c1930-40. It appears on a 1950 map. T...

Building, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Finchley Society

Finchley Society

Formed to protect, preserve and improve buildings, transport, roads and open spaces in Finchley and Friern Barnet and their environs, and to explore the history and the special features of the area...

Group, Community / Clubs

7 memorials