Sports clubs, such as Honor
Oak Cricket and Lawn Tennis
club, (founded in 1866),
Blackheath Harriers (founded
in 1869 in Peckham as Peckham
Hare and Hounds), have formed
an important feature of suburban
life. They provide a social
bond to new settlers and
a release of physical energy
from sedentary work. |
Honor
Oak and One tree Hill were
preserved as open spaces
after a response to attempts
to enclose and develop them
in the late 1890s.
This view
shows the adjacent playing
fields and, incongruously,
the Chapel to Camberwell
New Cemetery.
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