Category: SE15

Bellenden Road, SE15

Bellenden Road was originally Victoria Road and was renamed Bellenden Road in 1873.

Trafalgar Avenue, SE15

This area of Peckham, close to the Old Kent Road, was developed from the 1840s onwards.

Choumert Square, SE15

Choumert Square is reputedly London’s smallest square.

Queen’s Road, SE15

Queen’s Road extends eastwards from the end of Peckham High Street at the junctions of Consort Road and Meeting House Lane, to New Cross Road, a distance of approximately 1.5 km. Queen’s Road was formerly known as Deptford Lane, and was renamed in honour of Queen Victoria, who often passed through it on her way …

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London – South of the Thames : Chapter VIII

Chapter VII London – South of the Thames by Sir Walter Besantt Chapter IX This is a digitised copy of the book “London – South of the Thames” by Sir Walter Besant Published in London by Adam & Charles Black (1912) This is in its raw form. Sections will be improved manually on this blog as …

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Rye Lane, SE15

[advanced_iframe securitykey=”73bfdf36bff161fdb6d48c80a87afbe943e66891″ src=”http://theundergroundmap.com/iframe.html?id=28079&mapyear=1900&zoom=17&iheight=400″ width=”400″ height=”400″] N.B. Clicking on map markers take you to articles on the main website Rye Lane runs half a mile from Peckham High Street at the north, down to the corner of Copeland Road where The Nags Head sits at the south. It features several Georgian and Victorian buildings which have …

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