Peckham Rye Archives - Brockley SE4

Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

The first ever rugby union match – on Peckham Rye in 1871

Dec

2022

Peckham Rye has a long sporting history - birth place of running clubs South London Harriers and Blackheath Harriers, early site for Gaelic Athletics Association sports and much more. More recently a place for various kinds of football - soccer, rugby, American football and Australian rules football, and lets not forget Peckham Rye parkrun.But it ...

Music Monday: Carmody ‘Imperfect Constellations’

Jul

2022

South London singer Carmody has a new album out, Imperfect Constellations.Carmody (full name Jessica Carmody Nathan) is a long time collaborator with Tom Misch, indeed she co-wrote the classic transpontine anthem South of the River. Both Tom and sister Laura Misch appear on the album, and grew up in the same Peckham Rye/East Dulwich border zone ...

Women’s Day for Disarmament 1983

Jul

2021

'Women's Day for Disarmament' took place on May 24 1983, with hundreds of events across Britain. This was the period of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp against cruise missiles and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was at its height.In South London events included a temporary peace camp on Clapham Common near to the South ...

Fenton Ogbogbo- murdered by racists in the Old Kent Road, 1981

Apr

2021

Fenton Ogbogbo was a 25 year old man who was murdered in a racist attack on the Old Kent Road in June 1981. Three white youths aged 15 to 17 from the Peckham area were jailed at 'Her Majesty’s pleasure' in a trial at the Old Bailey in the following year. The court heard that on ...

Music Monday: King Krule – more songs about Peckham Rye and Bermondsey

Oct

2017

King Krule has a new album out, The OOZ. In a recent Gilles Peterson interview the East Dulwich/Peckham Rye raised artist mentions that he demo'd some of the tracks at Shrunken Heads studio in Nunhead (40 Nunhead Green), and also talks about a recent night out at the Royal Albert in Deptford. Bermondsey gets a couple ...

Music Monday: from Versailles to Peckham Rye with Kele

Aug

2017

'From the palace of VersaillesTo the streets of Peckham RyeYou craved the dizziest of heightsBut were caught out at the lightsThe streets been talkin'So starts Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke's new solo single 'The streets been talkin'. A new acoustic direction for Kele with an album to follow in October. Don't know what signfiicance Peckham holds for ...

I Want Your Love

Jul

2017

'I want your love' - tape on metal box, Peckham Rye/Nunhead Lane junction.But are they referencing Chic or Transvision Vamp?

American Football on Peckham Rye

Jul

2015

Peckham Rye today was its usual summer smorgasbord of physical culture. There were runners, boule players and, on the Independence Day weekend, American footballers from London teams Olympians and London Blitz. Australian rules, Gaelic football and soccer are also available in SE15.

South East London Giants – Australian Rules on Peckham Rye

Jun

2015

If those four-in-a-row posts on Peckham Rye are a mystery to you, you need to check out Australian rules football. The oval pitch on the Rye is the home of South East London Giants, our local Aussie Rules team. They have two men's teams and a women's team, and still have over a month left ...

Reptilian terror in Peckham Rye

Apr

2015

A reptilian monster is lurking in the depths of the lake on Peckham Rye, terrorizing passing wildfowl... or not. This terrapin seems to be just chilling out on a wooden island floating on the lake. I wonder how did terrapins become established in the park - were they deliberately introduced or did someone just abandon ...