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Eileen

Eileen

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Brendan Wrote:

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> Surely that's just a joke from an Only Fools and

> Horses episode.


No, no joke! I saw a sign there somewhere saying exactly that as well as estate agents using it in adverts...


But PS The area around Peckham High Street IS the old historic Peckham Village. See http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Historic_Peckham That is the real Peckham Village, rather than the recent development. But it is so close why quibble...

dc

dc

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Jeremy Wrote:

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> I always laugh when estate agents advertise a house in the heart of Peckham as being in "bellenden"... let alone "Bellenden Village!"


Bellenden has a long history. The local authority ward was called 'Bellenden' from at least the early 60s until it disappeared following boundary changes in 2002. What used to be Bellenden (basically the area around Bellenden Road but also including part of East Dulwich as far down as Northcross Road across to Barry Road) has been split four ways into Peckham Rye, The Lane (as in Rye Lane), South Camberwell and East Dulwich. There was (and may still be) a Bellenden Residents Group which covered the 'Rye Lane West' area.


'Bellenden Village' of course is another matter.

Eileen

Eileen

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dc Wrote:

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> Bellenden has a long history. The local authority

> ward was called 'Bellenden' from at least the

> early 60s until it disappeared following boundary

> changes in 2002. What used to be Bellenden

> (basically the area around Bellenden Road but also

> including part of East Dulwich as far down as

> Northcross Road across to Barry Road) has been

> split four ways into Peckham Rye, The Lane (as in

> Rye Lane), South Camberwell and East Dulwich.

> There was (and may still be) a Bellenden Residents

> Group which covered the 'Rye Lane West' area.


yes there is, brought to life in 2001 by the agonies of living in the middle of the Bellenden Renewal Scheme. New website just developing, temporarily hosted by peckhamvision website. see http://www.peckhamvision.org/brg/ Map there shows the area of Bellenden and also Rye Lane West.

macroban

macroban

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There's some re-writing of history going on here.


Bellenden "Road" was only an un-named farm track until the third quarter of the mid-19th century.


The "agonies" of the multi-million pound infusion of public money for the middle-classes of Bellenden Village?


Make your own judgment about why a photograph of Goose Green is on the Peckham Vision web-site.

lenk

lenk

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macroban Wrote:

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> Bellenden "Road" was only an un-named farm track

> until the third quarter of the mid-19th century.

>


I can't believe the estate agent never mentioned this when I bought my house.


I will immediately be selling up and leaving the area.

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