Book Description
The fascinating history of Peckham & Nunhead illustrated through old and modern pictures.
Author : John D. Beasley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445630176
The fascinating history of Peckham & Nunhead illustrated through old and modern pictures.
Author : John Beasley
Publisher : Through Time
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,37 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781848682900
The fascinating history of Peckham & Nunhead illustrated through old and modern pictures.
Author : John D. Beasley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445627264
This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Camberwell has changed and developed over the last century.
Author : Robert Hewison
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 191338005X
An entertaining and engaging social and cultural history of the London community of Peckham that offers lessons in urban living. “Is there life in Peckham?” asks a pop song of the 1980s. Peckham has been treated as a joke and a place to be avoided. It has been celebrated in television comedies, and denigrated for its levels of crime. It is a center for the arts and the creative industries, yet it also suffers from social deprivation and racial tension. Passport to Peckham is a guide to an unofficial part of London—social and cultural history written from the ground up. In this entertaining and engaging account, Hewison invites readers to explore Peckham’s streets and presents the portrait of a community experiencing the stresses of modern living. Old and new residents rub against each other as they try to adjust to the challenges created by urban regeneration and the more subtle process of gentrification. Artists have lived and worked in Peckham for more than a century, and now Caribbean and West African communities are adding their own flavors in terms of music, drama, poetry, and film. Focused on a few square miles, Passport to Peckham raises issues of urban policy, planning, culture, and creativity that have a far wider application. As London and other major cities recover from the COVID crisis, are there lessons in urban living to be learned from the pleasures and pains of Peckham? The answer from one of Britain’s most distinguished cultural critics is an emphatic yes.
Author : John D. Beasley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445628007
The fascinating, lavishly illustrated history of East Dulwich.
Author : George Walter Thornbury
Publisher :
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 1873
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Walter Thornbury
Publisher :
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 1893
Category : London (England)
ISBN :
Author : Walter Thornbury
Publisher :
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 1893
Category : London (England)
ISBN :
Author : Mark Baxter
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780220464
Seven drinking buddies decide to buy a racehorse and embark on the journey of a lifetime in the book that inspired the film Outside Bet. It's 1985 - Thatcher is in power, Sade is on the radio and the print workers have gone on strike. A motley rabble of seven firm friends: Thimble, Gudger, O'Sh, Fred the Shoe, Dave, Alfie and Bax meet every Sunday in their favourite South London boozer for banter of the highest order and a lot of taking the mick. Then, out of the blue, one of their number receives some news which knocks him and his merry band for six. Reeling from this shock and confused about how to deal with it, the boys meet and rally in standard fashion, in the Dutchman with a few light ales and an aim to set the world to rights. One day an unknown character approaches the crew and asks them a most intriguing question...'Does anyone here want to buy a racehorse?!' From that simple but surreal question unfolds the story of seven likely lads who embark on a unique journey in the name of their mate, and what happens when they just decide to go the whole bifta.
Author : Keith Payne
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1477214992
My Mother, Doreen Hilda Payne (nee Jardine) executed much of this research, tracing our forebears history back to the 1800s and possibly the very late 1700s. This may not seem a long time ago but when you remember that in those early times, people rode around on horseback; motor vehicles and aeroplanes were 100 years away from being invented. The Duke of Wellington was defeating Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 and in 1860 the American Civil War was yet to happen; while space travel was only an imaginative comic book dream. This tells you how long ago 1800 was, let alone the 1700s. The purpose of this document is to create an ongoing history of this immediate family and those involved, so that our Children and our Childrens Children will know where they came from and the histories and interests of these family members. Also the times in which they lived; indeed how much life and lifes struggles have changed over the years. It is my hope that our (Doreen and Keith Payne) Children, Holly and James and their Children, Jessica and Isabella by Holly and Sophie Olivia by James and Vicky will add their story to this historical document and pass it onto their Children. Should each subsequent generation add their story, this document will become historical in its own right. When I realised all the effort my Mother had put into locating her ancestors as far back as she had and realised exactly what she had managed to achieve, I believed it would be a great tragedy if all her endeavours were lost; herewith the book. Not many children know beyond their immediate grandparents so what an incredible history this will be if it is maintained down the years, recording all the changes in the way we live and additions to our family. Bless you Mother.