The Law relating to playing Football on Peckham Rye Common and in Peckham Rye Park (1904)

[edhistory]

Please note that play is not permitted on Sundays.

John K

EDIT 2011-08-13: Thread title changed in the interest of legal accuracy

EDIT 2011-08-16: Helpful addition to thread title

[DJKillaQueen]

We play in the park itself, not on the common....but a very interesting article...never to be enforced I think ;) as the rules have changed since then. Of course the article says nothing about ladies playing footy :D

[PeckhamRose]

Quite right too. You should all be going to church. PraiseGodSendMoney!

[DJKillaQueen]

LOL good one PR.....suddenly it all makes sense and can see where I have been going wrong!

[edhistory]

This is not an "article". It is a "bye-law" enacted under authority derived from the Metropolitan Board Of Works (Various Powers) Act 1882.

Playing croquet is also banned on Sundays.

John K

[DJKillaQueen]

Wow very interesting. Not likely to be ever enforced though. I'm guessing croquet was popular in 1882?

[Alan Medic]

Well the goalposts on PR are for Gaelic football and Hurling.So I presume the law does not apply to those sports.

[James Barber]

New byelaws were all agreed a couple of years ago. No constraint on Sunday or other sports of Sunday.

[PeckhamRose]

Oh thank GOD, or not - as the case may be for the church numbers.

[SteveUK1978]

I get very frustrated by the no croquet rules on a Sunday, although I have a confession to make. When the riots were going on last weekend I took the chance to sneak out for a quick game in Dulwich Park while the authorities' attention was elsewhere. Been wracked with guilt ever since some James' post is very re-assuring.

[Loz]

I took the lack of cops opportunity to travel up the short bus lane to turn left into Sainsburys, Steve. I'm in living in fear of a knock on the door at any moment.

[PeckhamRose]

Ohhhhhhh you bad people. They WILL knock, those cameras are at those junctions. A hanging matter if ever there was one.

[Laddy Muck]

Loz Wrote:

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I'm in living in fear of a knock on the

> door at any moment.

*knock knock*

[edhistory]

I am so relieved to to be told that the bye-laws in force in 1904 have been updated and that all sports are permitted on all days of the week.

The bye-laws in force in 1904 explicitly permitted ice-skating on the lake until dusk on any day of the week unless the park-keeper on duty declared it was too foggy to continue.

John K

[ianr]

> I am so relieved to to be told that the bye-laws in force in 1904 have been updated and that

> all sports are permitted on all days of the week.

Not so hasty. Archery, javelin, discus and shot are all prohibited, as is more or less any golf more dynamic than putting or addressing the ball. And "No person shall throw or strike a cricket ball with a bat except in a designated area for playing cricket." It's all here, under Anti-social behaviour.

[DJKillaQueen]

Now where did I put them ice skates? And the bow and arrow and the discuss.....:)

[Ridgley]

Has this law ever been inforced?