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Peckham 1913


bobb13

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I enjoyed the "Camberwell 1963" thread posted by nxjen on an earlier thread and it led me to this interesting early film on Peckham. I don't know where the building in the first half of the film is but in the street scenes about half way through you need to imagine you are opposite HSBC on Rye Lane looking north towards Wetherspoons on Peckham High Street.


http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-alexandra-day-in-peckham-1913/

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A couple more views of Rye Lane in 1913, which I've extracted from a 7MB English Heritage paper available at http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/myads/copyrights?from=2f6172636869766544532f61726368697665446f776e6c6f61643f743d617263682d313839332d312f64697373656d696e6174696f6e2f7064662f656e676c69736868322d36363834332e706466.


Given that the 7 July 1913 was a Monday, I wonder if the two were actually both taken on Saturday 7 June. There was a series of photographs taken at different times of day on 7 June 1913, probably to assist an inquiry into whether the speed limit should be reduced to 10mph. Camberwell Metropolitan Borough Council had applied to the LCC for this but there had been objections.


A "monkey parade" is described as "a weekend street theatre of promenading youth".

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Lovely clip! Alexandra Rose Day was / is always held in June.


Camberwell Town Hall was extended in the 1930s, recently refurbished and now a part of UAL Camberwell Halls of Residence. UAL have taken over many historic buildings in that area, maybe saving them from demolition.

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