‘Bold Tendencies’ by Sally Butcher Having previously written about the wonders of Deptford, the New York Times is now exhorting readers to dip even further south of the river: it recently published a panegyric to Peckham. Though not insensible to Peckham’s realities — it notes …
We make no secret of the fact that we are Area 10 groupies: this old timber yard is as near to the other side of the looking glass as it is possible to get in London. This weekend it is the turn of The Sawmill …
The Evening Standard has just discovered Peckham. The CPS showed remarkable wisdom in dropping the case of the stolen 0.03p worth of electricity. A chortle of chuggers (or whatever the collective noun is) – there’s just too bloomin’ many of them. Frozen in time: Big …
While we’re talking about views from that Peckham car park, here’s the situation inside. Various artists have set up camp in the upper storeys of the structure as part of the Bold Tendencies III show. As if negotiating the dimly lit concrete concourses were not …
Hope you don’t get too cross when we get all over-excited about stuff, but occasionally (alright, quite often) things come along which are soooo good that we can’t wait to share. Like this. A ‘pop-up’ sculpture gallery on the top two floors of Peckham’s (normally …
A disused road/railway embankment which has been given back to nature.
This is kind of an event within an event. Saturday sees our friends at Area 10 in Peckham hosting a party in aid of the TreeHouse Gallery, a project due to unfold in Central London this summer. A bunch of talented tree-loving bods are going …
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops The Review Bookshop is a small, but perfectly formed, corner of increasingly gentrified Peckham Rye. It opened four years ago with a focus on art, design and architecture but its main attraction is the leafy garden outside, where …
The Spike Surplus Centre in Peckham – a community/arts/allsorts centre with a heart of gold – has today lost its battle against eviction. Councils can be amazingly dim at times – the centre was one of the great buzzing assets of SE15. AND it had …
That’s Boris-speak for what is in fact a very exciting development in the transport world. Well, in the commuting life of South East Londoners it is anyway. The East London Line Phase Two extension has been approved. Geoff Hoon’s got his cheque book out. A …
Helping you find the sights, sounds, and occasional smells of our buried waterways. The Peck is just one of many small streams draining the swampy flood plain that is South London, but it’s an important and a fascinating one. Together with its northern branch, known …
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