peckwoman

I have an idea that TfL may have had a hand in the design? Certainly I remember a year or two ago now hearing that TfL were going to redesign this junction with the High Street, the sum of ?5m was mentioned I think.

It?s pretty dangerous for pedestrians too - several times I have nearly been run over by a bus or delivery vehicle crossing the road from the bus stop - what to do when suddenly a bike appears on the cycle lane and a bus starts moving on the road?

> Yes, it was a lovely spot before but the owner of > the garden centre couldn't resist cashing in on > the land value. Same trend all over London. > Another example is Whitten Timber in Peckham, who > have sold their plot to developers and renting > back half of it, while plastic-clad high-rise > "executive apartments" are shoehorned into the > other half. Those kinds of new build flats are now > plunging in value. Councils shouldn't have been > quite so gullible about the housing shortage and > the need to build forests of white elephants all > over London. It was Southwark Council that did a deal with Whittens a few years ago, and got them to move along Peckham Hill Street. The vacant space was then used by artists mostly, until Southwark then did a deal with Mountview Musical Theatre school helping them to finance the building soon to be completed next to the library. So many people stop to look and ask if it?s housing, it?s not. Perhaps only a matter of time that the Whittens site becomes student housing?

That is so horrible. I started wondering why the park, then realised - I suspect there is no cctv in the Park, so they could put this up unobserved...? Scum is too nice for them.

It would appear that Walter Sidney's father and mother, Henry William and Harriet were living at 119 Crystal Palace Road in 1911 with their other children in four rooms, along with Walter Sidney and his first wife Emily Mildred and daughter Emily Annie in four rooms. Before that, in 1901 the family were living in Sumner Terrace, Peckham, then back n in 1871 it appears that Walter Sidney's grandfather Martin Fentum, an ivory Turner employing 20 men and 6 women was living at 'Norville' near Alleyne Park. Of course, this is all conjecture, you have to prove it with some sources other than census like certificates, etc.. but great fun!

In 1939, 6 Matham Grove had just the one occupant, Emily A Fentum, born 1907, single, publisher's clerk. Noted is that she was "part time ARP vol"