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

" 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.

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

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.

* 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.

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.

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.

The University of the Arts London has two of its colleges in the borough-at Elephant and Castle is the London College of Communication and on Peckham Road is the Camberwell College of Arts.

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

Peckham () is a district in South London, England, located in the London Borough of Southwark.

' Peckham ' is a Saxon place name meaning the village of the River Peck, a small stream that ran through the district until it was enclosed in 1823.

A famous Peckham gang is the Peckham Boys.

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

The oldest surviving building in Peckham is 2 Wood's Road, built in 1690.

Peckham is one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the UK.

This ward is about one fifth of the place called Peckham, and not representative of the ethnic and cultural distribution in the other 4 wards.

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

Peckham is the home of the main character of Dot.

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

It is likely that he composed his Expositio super Regulam Fratrum Minorum, a work that included information on preaching, a subject that Peckham felt was of great importance.

* John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury

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.

John Peckham ( or Pecham ) ( c. 1230 – 8 December 1292 ) was Archbishop of Canterbury in the years 1279 – 1292.

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

John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury, died in December 1292, and on 13 February 1293 Winchelsey was elected as his successor.

It appears, however, that Siger and Boetius fled to Italy and, according to John Peckham, archbishop of Canterbury, perished miserably.

In November 1282 the Archbishop of Canterbury John Peckham came to North Wales to mediate between Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and Edward Longshanks.

A new Office had been made by the Franciscan John Peckham, Canon of Lyons, later Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1292 ).

Excommunicated by Archbishop of Canterbury John Peckham, he went to the papal court in Orvieto to plead his case with the pope.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Kilwardby, was also his friend ; but after Kilwardby's death in 1279 a series of disputes arose between the bishop and the new archbishop, John Peckham.

John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury warned Eleanor that her activities in the land market caused outcry, gossip, rumour and scandal across the realm.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, John Peckham when involved in negotiations with Llywelyn on behalf of King Edward in 1282 sent Llywelyn a letter in which he denounced Welsh law, stating that King Hywel must have been inspired by the devil.

Peckham had presumably consulted the Peniarth 28 manuscript which was apparently held in the library at St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury at this time.

After requests from the Pope, Prince Llywelyn and Archbishop John Peckham of Canterbury, Amaury was released after swearing at London not to return to England unless invited by the king.

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

Other famous writers who have lived in the area include the poet Robert Browning, who was born in Camberwell, and lived there until he was 28, and Muriel Spark, the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Ballad of Peckham Rye.

One reason the archbishop may have backed down was that he was in debt to the Italian banking family of the Riccardi, who also were bankers to Edward and the pope, and Peckham was under threat of excommunication from the pope unless he repaid the loans.

However, during the past few years ( 2000 – 2010 ) many migrant families have moved from London boroughs such as Hackney and Peckham, and settled in Basildon, thus adding to Basildon's growing rate in multi-cultured families and communities.

The " K " branch would have run under Peckham to Peckham Rye, continuing onward to join the old Crystal Palace ( High Level ) branch ( which was still open in 1949 ) near Lordship Lane station.

The South Cross Route, one side of the London Motorway Box the innermost ring road of the unbuilt 1960s London Ringways plan, would have paralleled the South London Line between Wandsworth Road and Peckham Rye stations.

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.

Trials in this hall have included those of Anne Askew ( Protestant martyr ), Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, Lady Jane Grey, Guildford Dudley, Thomas Cranmer, Henry Peckham, John Daniel, John Felton ( Catholic ), Roderigo Lopez, Henry Garnet ( in connection with the Gunpowder Plot ), Sir Gervase Helwys ( in connection with the Overbury plot ) and it contains memorials to Pitt the Elder, Pitt the Younger, Admiral Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, William Beckford, and Winston Churchill.

Eastbound, passengers for London Bridge will have to change either at Clapham High Street for the London Underground Northern line or Peckham Rye for National Rail.

Rodney and Cassandra now have a young daughter called Joan, who Rodney named after his late mother and who was born in the last episode ; " Sleepless in Peckham ", resulting in a very moving and emotional ending to the show.

Although being a partner may have sounded impressive on the outside, Rodney's main duty was keeping an eye out for the police while Del would be ( illegally ) flogging his goods on Peckham market.

Branches to Deptford, Peckham, the Borough, and one to rejoin the Thames at Vauxhall were included, but proposals for a branch from Mitcham to Croydon, and another to Kingston, which would have created a route to bypass the Thames through London, were removed from the bill during the committee stages.

For example, in South London terms such as " Wallad " ( meaning fool ) have become popular in Brixton and Peckham as a result of people converting to Islam.

At the same time, Peckham observed that, in some cases, purely private agreements can have the same economic impact, that is directly restrain commerce among the several states.

In particular, Peckham quoted Taft's finding that pipe produced by the cartel could have been produced and delivered to Atlanta for a cost, including a reasonable profit and the cost of transportation, or $ 17 or $ 18 per ton, but the cartel instead charged $ 24. 25 per ton.