Psn Index 2010-2015
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THE PECKHAM SOCIETY NEWS INDEX FROM NO.118 (2010) TO 139 (2015) Compiled by Derek Kinrade THE NAMES OF CORRESPONDENTS ARE GENERALLY OMITTED. SIMILARLY I HAVE MOSTLY EXCLUDED EPHEMERAL AND PERSONAL NOTICES, ADVERTISEMENTS OF EVENTS AND COMMERCIAL SERVICES, REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION AND DETAILS OF MEMORIES EXCEPT WHERE THEY CONTAIN SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL INFORMATION. PERSONAL MEMORIES ARE IN A SEPARATE ‘LETTERS’ INDEX. DCK A Acorn Estate – consultation on proposed new homes: 130/19, 131/1-2 Action for Blind People – closure of workshop: 126/21 Aquarius Golf Club: 124/28 Adamson, Jean, children’s author - born in Peckham, 1928: 119/14 Afriyie, Adam, MP for Windsor - attended Oliver Goldsmith School: 137/26 - birthday: 137/26 - brought up in Peckham: 119/19 ALD Life – new charity shop in Rye Lane: 136/14 - seeks to raise awareness of adrenoleukodystrophy: 136/14 Ali’s Greengrocers (film): 123/6 Alleyne, Edward, founder of Dulwich College - purchased Dulwich Manor from Sir Francis Calton: 137/28 - sour relationship with John Donne: 119/24 Allport, Douglas - book (1841) concerned with local antiquities: 129/21 All Saints’ Church, Blenheim Grove - foundation stone laid and consecrated by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce: 137/33-34 - photograph c.1900: 138/9 - photograph: 137/34 - photograph of church hall, 1982: 138/9 - ‘Songs of Praise’ broadcast on BBC television: 120/32, 121/16 - surge in membership since 2003: 120/32 All Saints’ Church, Davey Street, North Peckham - architect and cost: 137/34 - demolished and rebuilt at Biggin Hill 121/24, 129/14 (with painting) Alsop, Will, architect for Peckham Library - 135/5 Ammon, Lord - dates of birth and death: 133/3 Annual dinner and excursion of 1870 recorded on an old handkerchief: 136/12 Anthony, Barry – book on Chaplin’s music hall: 135/6 Archaeological finds: 122/28, 128/21, 24, 34, 135/23-24 (with photograph) Arias, Sonia – book (British West Indies – book of a postcard collection): 137/13 Arlington Dance Hall, Peckham Road: 118/12 Arments Pie and Mash shop: 133/5-6 Artists’ Open House weekends: 132/15 Armstrong-Jones, Tony (subsequently Lord Snowden) - a customer of Austin’s of Peckham Rye: 139/7 Astoria Cinema (later Odeon-Astoria), Old Kent Road: 118/6-7 Asylum (arts venue): 124/28 Asylum Road - Bath Tavern: qv - Victoria Café remembered: 120/28, 124/29-30 Atkinson, Vic – memories of schooldays: 127/28-29 Austin, Derek – obituary: 133/27 Austin, G & Sons, antique dealers: 122/35 - archives deposited in Local History Library: 130/35 - commended by Eileen Conn: 124/30-31 - commended by Lord Kingsale: 123/9 - commended by Derek Kinrade: 123/11 (with photograph) - drawing of advertisement: 133/27 - famous visitors: 133/27, 139/7 - historic items deposited in local history library: 133/27 - mentioned in novels: 133/27 - multiple business activities in 1893: 136/11 - photograph of former premises: 132/18 - premises at two Peckham locations in 1893: 136/11 Austin’s Court - clock corrected: 121/9 - photograph: 131/3 Avenue House, Maria Rye’s Emigration Home for Destitute Little Girls - archives: 130/30 Avondale Rise - photograph of front wall of no.18 thought to have been built from rubble from Unitarian Church: 120/5 Avondale Road – Unitarian church and hall: 128/14, 135/30 Aylward, Gladys, missionary - visit to Peckham Methodist Church (with photograph): 118/26 Ayoade, Richard, presenter TV channel 4 - known as ‘gadget man’: 138/10 - Peckham resident: 138/10 Azenby Road - memories of (with photograph): 129/18 - part demolition to create Warwick Gardens: 128/29-31 - photograph before demolition: 128/30 Azenby Square: 128/29-31 B Bachchan, Amitabh, Indian film star - torchbearer before 2012 Olympic Games: 130/18 (with photograph) Bagott, Matt, Chief Constable of Northern Ireland - was a Superintendent at Peckham Police Station: 136/15 Bainbridge, Beryl, novelist - was a customer at Austins of Peckham Rye: 120/14 Bancroft, John, architect: 126/23, 134/28 Bandstand on Peckham Rye Common: qv Bank House – photograph, but location queried: 130/35 Bankside: London’s Original District of Sin – book: 127/11 Baptist Chapel, Rye Lane - location (correcting Barratt’s ‘Brief History’): 130/30 Bar Story, Blenheim Grove: 118/24 Barclay, Charles, architect – home featured in The Sunday Times: 122/31 Barker, Maude - book: see Growing Up in Edwardian London - memories of First World War air raid: 132/25 Bartlett, Jean (née Towler) – recollections of Peckham : 130/11-12 Bartley, Alan – book: 122/5 Bartram, John, American farmer and amateur botanist - foundation of American Philosophical Society: 136/20 - links with Peter Collinson: 136/18-22 Basing Manor House - dates from 14 th century: 136/34 - stood in Surrey village of Peckham until 1883: 136/34 - use of the house and its site from 1854: 136/34 Basing Road – street sign survives: 128/14, 129/18 Bath, John - article on Orchard Mission and memories of childhood: 123/28-32 Bath Tavern, Asylum Road - drawing: 133/8 - photograph: 130/31, 136/8 Batty & Co, manufacturer of nabob sauces and like products - collection of memorabilia: 122/16 - located under Peckham railway arches (until 1905): 122/16 Batty, George – proprietor of Batty & Co: qv Baxter, Mark – books on Walworth: 122/5, 130/10, 139/8-9 Beasley, John – charged with breaking and entering (1893): 139/33 Beasley, John D, local historian - articles: 122/32-33 - awarded certificate for service as a Methodist local preacher: 139/33 - books: 118/15, 119/5-6, 23, 121/8, 123/13, 129/36, 130/6, 131/6 - broadcast on HOME project: qv - drawing of: 128/21 - featured on 1989 photograph: 121/17 - gratitude to contributors: 139/34 and 35 - has edited 111 [sic, 112] issues of Peckham Society News: 139/34 - identification of painting of historic houses in Peckham High Street: 120/33 - influence of Harold Finch (qv): 120/9 - looks back on 27 years as editor of Peckham Society News: 138/9-10 - meets Frank Ellery and Winnie Williams at Greenhive: 132/6 - photograph with Bob Smyth: 125/6 - photograph at unveiling of blue plaque at Pioneer Health Centre: 132/27 - slide show on streets of south Peckham (with photographs): 120/6-7 - slide show on transport in Peckham and Nunhead: 132/6 - steps down as editor of Peckham Society News: 138/9-10, 139/9, 34 and 35 - talk on East Dulwich: 128/26-27 - talk on ‘Peckham & Nunhead Residents and Visitors’: 132/11-12 - teaches cubs about Peckham’s history: 128/14 - view from top of Shard building: 131/15 Beasley, John Ebenezer, lamp dealer - brief biographical information: 122/17 - letter from Robert Beasley, a descendant: 122/17 - located in Rye Lane in 1860: 121/5 - sold paraffin oil from no.11 Rye Lane: 122/17 - son of John, a boot and shoe maker: 122/17 Beavan, Jenny, costume designer - Emmy Award added to six previous awards: 121/6 - featured in ‘The Independent’: 122/9 - photograph: 122/9 Beckett, John MP, former Peckham MP – famous for seizing the Mace in 1930: 125/32 Bellenden Road (formerly Victoria Road) - Elim House: qv - Gaiter’s Chemist – offered dental extractions for one shilling: 127/35 - Gieves and Hawkes: qv - Joseph Starkey Ltd: qv - nature garden opened (with photograph): 121/6 Bellenden School – photograph of former premises: 132/21 Benedictus, David, children’s author - article in Daily Mail: 119/14 Benjamin, Baroness Floella – processed in Peckham: 134/21 Benson, Micaela, University of Bristol - paper on a middle-class area of Peckham: 130/8 Bermondsey, spirit of – book: 137/10 Bermondsey and Rotherhithe through time – book: 128/15 Bermondsey Story, the life of Alfred Salter – book: 130/13-14 Bertrand, Ryan, footballer: 129/7 Bessemer, Sir Henry, Victorian inventor and engineer – biography: 134/7 Bevington & Sons, organ builders - temporary location in Peckham: 127/16 Bermondsey – excavations: see The Cluniac Priory Bicycle manufacturers and shops in Peckham - former cycling clubs: 135/5 - former shops recalled: 134/12 - websites identified: 127/10 - Wilson’s cycle shop: 135/5 Bicycle Nation – servicing and repair centre: 134/29 (with photograph) Bicycling speedway – memories of: 124/35 (The) Big Questions, filmed in Peckham: 139/27 Binder, Linda, Member of House of Representatives and Senate in Arizona: 129/23 - photograph with Jeremy Gotch, former Sheriff of City of London: 129/23 - visit with Jeremy Gotch to John Beasley’s home: 129/23 Bioscope shows, 1908: 125/7-8 Bishop, Joan – memories of Peckham (with photograph of Holdron store): 129/19-20 Bittersweet, the story of Hartley’s jam – book: 126/14 Black history: 131/6-7, 139/24-25 Black population in Southwark; 139/25 Black Poppies – book: 139/24-25 Blackman, Malorie, children’s author - praise for Peckham Rye Park and Peckham Library: 118/17 Blackstone, Baroness Tessa – visited Caroline Gardens chapel in 2001: 134/21 Blair, Tony, former Prime Minister - visited various locations in Peckham: 136/9 Blake, William – commemorative plaque: 134/15 - connection with Peckham: 134/15 - visionary experience: 134/15 Blanch, John & Son – supplied rifles for Hanover Park Rifle Association: 134/23 Blanch, William Harnett – biographical article: 125/13-24 - blue plaque unveiled (photograph & speeches): 132/1-4 - celebratory dinner (1877); 128/25, 131/13 - drawing (rare): 125/22 - home in Denman Road, c.1873 (recent photograph): 125/23 - neighbour to Mary Ann Kelty 1863-71 in Hanover Street: 133/13 - ‘Ye Parish of Camerwell’: 128/25 Blenheim House: 133/17 - attached to Marlborough House: 135/25 - drawing of: 135/26 Blue Anchor Lane – photograph of 18 th century houses: 134/4 Blue plaques: see Lived in London - first Peckham