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Sue Wrote:

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> BTW an estate agent once long ago described East

> Dulwich as East Dulwich Village :)) :)) :))



That's nothing. Bellenden Road has - in all seriousness - been previously described as "The French Quarter" by estate agents.

Sue Wrote:

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> ken78 Wrote:

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> -----

> > is nunhead in peckham does anyone know or is it

> a

> > village ?? some say it's in peckham some say

> it's

> > now nunhead village any one know

>

>

> Presumably you have posted this because you have

> seen the very very long discussion aka argument on

> Facebook about it?

>

> :)) :)) :))

funny you should say that but no i don't do facebook

fishbiscuits Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > BTW an estate agent once long ago described

> East

> > Dulwich as East Dulwich Village :)) :)) :))

>

>

> That's nothing. Bellenden Road has - in all

> seriousness - been previously described as "The

> French Quarter" by estate agents.



😂😂😂

fishbiscuits Wrote:

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> That's nothing. Bellenden Road has - in all

> seriousness - been previously described as "The

> French Quarter" by estate agents.


Though there is a local history of Huguenot French cloth workers in the area, hence some of the French street names and French surnames in the ?dissenters corner? of Nunhead cemetery. The Belham named their classes after types of cloth as a nod to the local history.


Edited to add - calling it the French quarter is still of course ridiculous.

fishbiscuits Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > BTW an estate agent once long ago described

> East

> > Dulwich as East Dulwich Village :)) :)) :))

>

>

> That's nothing. Bellenden Road has - in all

> seriousness - been previously described as "The

> French Quarter" by estate agents.


It's on the Wikipedia page...uncited.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellenden_Road

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Basically a Village by definition is a community

> with a Central Ecclesiastical Center. (a main

> Church)

>

> A congregational centre... for people to meet.

>

> Also a Pub (The Pub) ... A 'Village' shop.. Not

> a chain..

>

> Back in the Day a Blacksmith..

>

> Foxy


Is there something wrong with your phone/computer Foxle?


Keeps throwing up odd bold type

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Basically a Village by definition is a community

> with a Central Ecclesiastical Center. (a main

> Church)

>

> A congregational centre... for people to meet.

>

> Also a Pub (The Pub) ... A 'Village' shop.. Not

> a chain..


n

>

> Back in the Day a Blacksmith..

>

> Foxy


nunhead don't have a blacksmith so it's not a village then ???? or can you remember back in the day ??

DuncanW Wrote:

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> It's not a village.

>

> I never knew that the Ivy House had once been

> known as The Newlands Tavern. You see Newlands on

> maps sometimes but other than the Newlands

> Academy, I have never heard anyone refer to that

> part of Nunhead as such.


If you look at old maps turn of century 1890s Peckham rye, by Rye Hill Park over to the the cemetery

were known as the Newlands, I have heard Bellenden road refered to as Peckham village.

But as a kid, living in what now is Nunhead it was Peckham, Nunhead village was Nunhead green.

I think names to tempt new buyers, and Peckham had a bad name

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Where?s the ?dissenter?s corner? in Nunhead

> cemetery.


I was told by one of the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery people that it is the Western corner that runs along Linden Grove. It starts at the Scottish Martyrs memorial and is where the non Anglicans (e.g. Methodists and other non-conformists) including my great-great-grandparents are buried.

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