Harris County operates the Mary Jo Peckham Community Center at

It operates four bus garages in Bexleyheath, Camberwell, New Cross and Peckham.

It was already a substantial settlement with a church when mentioned in the Domesday Book, and was the parish church for a large area including Dulwich and Peckham.

In the south, large houses were built to the west of the common land called Peckham Rye and the lane that led to it.

In the early 1990s Peckham was a centre of underground music, partly due to a large squat in a disused, 2 floor DHSS building in Collyer Place near Peckham High Street.

The main shopping street is Rye Lane and the large Peckham Rye Park is nearby.

The area known as Peckham covers a large area of South London and takes in many diverse communities.

The company later established a large manufacturing plant in Peckham, which became the United Kingdom's first manufacturing base of H. J. Heinz Company in 1905.

* January 28 – Walter Arnold, of East Peckham, Kent, England, is fined 1 shilling for speeding at, thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of.

The first person to be convicted of speeding is believed to be Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, who on 28 January 1896 was fined for speeding at.

Peckham Library, designed by Will Alsop won the Stirling Prize for modern architecture ; another architecturally innovative library is under construction at Canada Water in Rotherhithe.

* Harris Academy at Peckham

* East Dulwich which bounds Peckham at Peckham Rye is a separate centre-not just the eastern end of Dulwich-with its own distinct character.

King John probably hunted at Peckham and local anecdotes suggest that the right to an annual fair was granted to celebrate a particularly good day's sport.

In 1870 George Gibson Bussey moved to Peckham and set up a firm described as " Firearms, Ammunition & Shooting ” at the Museum Works, Rye Lane, Peckham.

London Borough of Southwark Blue Plaque awarded to famous motorbike designer Edward Turner unveiled in 2009 at his former residence, 8 Philip Walk, Peckham.

' The Peckham Experiment ' recruited 950 families at one shilling ( 5p ) a week.

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.

Peckham during the 1997 election accused the administration, when it comes to dealing with new developments, jumps at opportunities rather than considers serious planning.

In around 1270, Peckham returned to England, where he taught at the University of Oxford, and was elected the Franciscan provincial minster of England in 1275.

For years Peckham taught at Paris, where he was in contact with many of the leading sholars of his time, including Thomas Aquinas.

He famously debated Aquinas on at least two occasions during 1269 and 1270, during which Peckham defended the conservative theological position, and Thomas put forth his views on the soul.

Where Peckham met Bacon is not known, but it would have been at either Paris or Oxford.

At an ecclesiastical council held at Lambeth in 1281, Peckham ordered the clergy to instruct their congregations in doctrine at least four times a year.

Peckham also decreed that the clergy should preach to their flocks at least four times a year.

Peckham died on 8 December 1292 at Mortlake and was buried in the north transept, or the Martyrdom, of Canterbury Cathedral.

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.

He was an Oxfordshire County Councillor between 1973 and 1977, the youngest ever at the age of 21, and contested Southwark, Peckham in October 1982 at the Peckham by-election, 1982 which also brought Harriet Harman into public view.

* 4 trains per hour to London Bridge via Peckham Rye ( Southern )

While traveling towards London Victoria, after Bromley South, the trains can either travel on the main line, through Beckenham Junction, Herne Hill and Brixton, or can divert via the Catford Loop Line, coming away from the main line at Shortlands Junction, travelling through Catford and Peckham Rye, and then just past Brixton it either picks up the Southeastern line all the way, or can follow the Southern ( Atlantic ) Line through Clapham High Street and Wandsworth Road Stations, before crossing back over to the Southeastern Line to Victoria Station.

The southern end of Peckham was the location for the railway line that once served The Crystal Palace in Sydenham.

In the end, Peckham excommunicated some of the Welsh who were resisting Edward, not unsurprising given Peckham's views of the Welsh.

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 ).

* 2 trains per hour ( tph ) to Kentish Town via Peckham Rye ( Monday to Saturday )

* 2 trains per hour ( tph ) to Kentish Town / ( London Victoria late evenings and on Saturdays & Sundays ) calling at all stations via Peckham Rye

* 2tph on Monday to Saturday to Kentish Town via Catford and Peckham Rye

* 2 tph to Kentish Town / ( Blackfriars station at weekends ) calling at all stations via Peckham Rye

Replacement leisure facilities were provided at the Peckham Pulse Healthy Living Centre by Peckham Town Square.

* 177-Thamesmead Town Centre and Peckham Bus Station.

In 1920 he married Celia Inez Peckham, who became the mother of his three children, Raymond Ben, Robert Peckham and Celia Lee.

In the past, many different types of bogie ( truck ) have been used under tramcars, e. g. " Brill ", " Peckham " and " maximum traction ".

Many examples are based on locations in London and, in all likelihood, will be meaningless to people unfamiliar with the capital e. g. " Peckham Rye ", meaning " tie " ( as in necktie ), which dates from the late 19th century ; " Hampstead Heath ", meaning " teeth " ( usually as " Hampsteads ”), which was first recorded in 1887 and " Barnet Fair ", meaning " hair ", which dates from the 1850s.

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.

After opening its first overseas office in London in 1896, the company opened its first UK factory in Peckham, south London in 1905.

* 1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding.

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 ).

" The Borough " to the south of Waterloo, London and Tower Bridge were also considered Cockney before redevelopment all but extinguished the local working class areas, and now Bermondsey is the only Cockney area south of the Thames, although Pearly Kings and Queens can be found as far out as Peckham and Penge.

On 6 November, while John Peckham, archbishop of Canterbury, was conducting peace negotiations, Edward's commander of Anglesey, Luke de Tany, decided to carry out a surprise attack.

Del-Boy is a wide-boy who makes a dubious living in Peckham, south London, trading in shoddy, stolen, and counterfeit goods.

Murray, the eldest of eleven children, was born near Peckham Rye in Peckham, London.

* South Acton is the site of actual housing estate featured in long running BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses-although the script described the Trotters as living in Peckham.

To the west of Bermondsey lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe, and to the south, Walworth and Peckham.

It was erected in the 1950s using the dismantled materials from All Saints Church, North Peckham.

The parish covered in 1831 and was divided into the liberty of Peckham to the east, the hamlet of Dulwich to the southwest, as well as Camberwell proper.

Nearest places are Dulwich, Brixton, Peckham, Walworth, Elephant and Castle, Stockwell, Herne Hill, Vauxhall and Kennington.