An English Heritage blue plaque was unveiled at the original Peckham Pioneer Health Centre at 142 Queen’s Road, Peckham, on 26 March 2009. This was to honour Drs George Scott Williamson and Innes Pearse who founded the centre in 1926. Dr Margaret Pelling of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, spoke about the Blue Plaque scheme and the role that Drs Williamson and Pearse had in founding the Peckham Experiment at number 142.
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The Peckham Society
The Peckham Society is the amenity society for Peckham and Nunhead, SE15. It exists to encourage interest in and to care for the surrounding area.
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Come to a Community Workshop to discuss the local buildings and spaces that you love! This is part of a project to gather a Community List of the buildings and spaces that are of social, historic, cul...
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The 22nd of June is the 75th anniversary of the sad bombing of the corset factory on the corner of Peckham Rye and Nunhead Lane in June 1944. 22 people, mostly young women, died in this incident. The Peckham Society encourages people to remember the unexpected & terrifying ‘Doodlebug Summer’ in Peckham and Nunhead, seventy five years ago, in June and July 1944. People can visit the commemorative sign that marks the site of this tragedy, designed and written by the Peckham Society. It is also possible to see the density of local bombing in SE15 online:bombsight.org/explore/greater-london/southwark/nunhead/bombsight.org/explore/greater-london/southwark/peckham/
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