The award winning Peckham Library ( October 2005 )

The European Union has invested heavily in the regeneration of the area ; partly funding the futuristic, award-winning Peckham Library, a new town square and swathes of new housing to replace the North Peckham Estate.

Peckham is the earliest of the Archbishops of Canterbury to have his registers, the principal records of archiepiscopal administration, held in at Lambeth Palace Library.

Peckham Library is a library and community building situated in Peckham in south-east London.

* Peckham Library on Southwark Council site

* Peckham Library & Media Centre architecture page on Open University site

* Peckham Library, London, UK guide on BBC h2g2 site

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In 2005, the London Borough of Southwark erected a plaque in the Peckham Library Square in commemoration of Dr. Walter Rodney, the political activist, historian and global freedom fighter.

On 27 November 2000, Taylor set off from Peckham Library at 4: 51 pm to make his way home.

* March 8 – Peckham Library in London, designed by Alsop and Störmer, opens to the public.

* Stirling Prize – Alsop & Störmer, Peckham Library

* Will Alsop: Peckham Library, North Greenwich tube station

The archives of the Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham, in the Wellcome Library.

With strong links to the local community, Camberwell is setting up an exhibition space, Space designed by Will Alsop in Peckham Square.

In 2000 he designed lampposts, pavements, gates and arches for Southwark Council's Peckham Renewal Project.

Antony Gormley, whose workshop adjoins Phillips ' studio in Bellenden Road, Peckham, designed bollards for the same project and the work of both artists adorns that street.

In the first few days of operation the garage ran just 11 buses on route 178 which had moved from Rye Lane ( Peckham ), but then gained more work from the next stage of the tram replacement program for which it had been designed for, but it was still well short of capacity.

Robert Peckham Noble, a Purdue educated engineer, took his younger brother's entrepreneurial vision and designed and built the manufacturing facilities needed to expand the company.

Peckham Rye and Denmark Hill, as well as operating on the East London Railway under the Thames through the Thames Tunnel designed by Marc Isambard Brunel.

The faction led by John Marshall Harlan and Rufus Peckham embraced a small-producer ethic and a fully competitive market ; these justices used the Sherman Act's prohibition of " restraint of trade " to outlaw price fixing by businesses.

His knowledge of optics was connected to the handed-down long-standing tradition of the Kitab al-manazir ( The Optics ; De aspectibus ) of the Arab polymath Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham, d. c. 1041 ), which was mediated by Franciscan optical workshops of the 13th-century Perspectivae traditions of scholars such as Roger Bacon, John Peckham and Witelo ( similar influences are also traceable in the third commentary of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Commentario terzo ).

MOCA, London, as curated by the artist Michael Petry, is a free museum located in Peckham Rye dedicated to exposing and showcasing new cutting-edge artists and their work.

Peckham became popular as a wealthy residential area by the 16th century and there are several claims that Christopher Wren had local links.

The formal gardens of the Peckham Manor House, rebuilt in 1672 by Sir Thomas Bond were particularly noticeable and can be seen on the Rocque map of 1746.

At the beginning of the 19th century Peckham was a " small, quiet, retired village surrounded by fields ".

In the north, housing spread out to the south of the Old Kent Road including Peckham New Town built on land owned by the Hill family ( from whom the name Peckham Hill Street derives ).

The Ballad of Peckham Rye, a 1960 novel by Muriel Spark, is set in Peckham.

The television situation comedy Desmond's was made by Channel 4 and was filmed and set in Peckham.

* Damilola Taylor was attacked by a local gang of youths on 27 November 2000 in Peckham, south London ; he bled to death after being stabbed with a broken bottle in the thigh, which severed the femoral artery.

On November 1, 2008, the new Village Hall was dedicated at a ceremony attended Mayor Roger Peckham and the Board of Trustees, by two former Mayors Paesel and Collins, former Village Trustees Joseph Wiszowaty, Mary Seery, V. Zeke Luther, Rita Kueny, Patricia Hasse, former Village Clerks Marjorie Tuley and Elizabeth Selvey and several other local mayors and many other distinguished guest.

On April 1, 1997, Collins would soon find himself beat out by once ally Roger Peckham, his own appointee to the Village Board.

Peckham also studied optics and astronomy, and his studies in those subjects were influenced by Roger Bacon.

Peckham also studied other fields, however ; and was guided by Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon's views on the value of experimental science.

The first electric starter was installed on an Arnold ( automobile ), an adaptation of the Benz Velo, built 1896 in East Peckham, England by electrical engineer H. J. Dowsing.

Derek " Del Boy " Trotter ( played by David Jason ), a fast-talking, archetypal cockney market trader, lives in a council flat in a high-rise tower block, Nelson Mandela House, in Peckham, South London – though it was actually filmed in Harlech Tower in Acton and later Bristol – with his much younger brother, Rodney Trotter ( Nicholas Lyndhurst ), and their elderly Grandad ( Lennard Pearce ).

Through the NHS R & D programme, led by the first Director of Research and Development Professor Michael Peckham, funds were provided to establish a ' Cochrane Centre ', to collaborate with others, in the UK and elsewhere, to facilitate systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials across all areas of health care.

Llywelyn had no alternative but to comply, and he later stated that he did it under duress, ' moved by the fear that can grip a steadfast man ' ( see Registrum Epistolarum Fratis Johannis Peckham Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, Lambeth Palace Archives ).

BEP as a first-line treatment was first reported by Professor Michael Peckham in 1983.

Cleveland's follow-up nominee Wheeler Hazard Peckham, another New Yorker, was also rejected by the Senate, 32 – 41, on February 16, 1894.

He attended Sunday evening services at the parish church, and it must have been a matter of anxious concern to " Mr Thompson " that during his stay in Peckham the vicarage was broken into by a burglar and an unsuccessful attempt made to steal the communion plate which was kept there.