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Peckham Rye Park, Peckham, Southwark, c.1910

Peckham Rye Park, Peckham, Southwark, c.1910

  

In 1890 the Camberwell Vestry purchased Homestall Farm.

They introduced the features expected of late Victorian parks: a lake, bandstand and landscaping, and called it Peckham Rye Park.

It was then used to greatly augment the adjacent (already procured) Peckham Rye Common as a public open space for the people of Peckham and Camberwell.
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Images of Peckham
 
Rye Lane, Peckham, c. 1894
Jones & Higgins,
Rye Lane,
Peckham, c. 1900
 
South Metropolitan Gasworks, Peckham, 1903
South Metropolitan
Gasworks,
Peckham, 1903
 
Horse Tram, St James's Road, Peckham, c. 1912
Horse Tram,
St James's Road,
Peckham, c. 1912
 
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