Friends meeting house. This building was the Peckham meeting house of the Society of Friends 1835 - 1962, attended by eminent quakers including Elizabeth Cadbury, social reformer and Arthur Eddington, astronomer.
Historic Southwark
SE15, Highshore Road, 2 - 4, Royal Mail Delivery Office
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Friends Meeting Place - Peckham
English Buildings has a good short intro to Quakers in England and an assessm...
Philanthropist. Born Elizabeth Mary Taylor at 3 Elm Place, Peckham Rye. She a...
Astronomer. mathematician and physicist. Born Arthur Stanley Eddington in Ken...
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Friends Meeting Place - Peckham
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
English Heritage Sir Stafford Cripps, 1889-1952, statesman born here.
This plaque is placed as close as possible to the site of the Hall.
Queen Victoria once rested at the Fox and Crown after her horses had bolted down the hill and she had had rather a shock. The landlord, ...
This hole is at least a metre deep. the cross pieces are we think old tree roots, and lower down something that looks like an old electri...
That's what we like, a plaque that doesn't waffle, short and to the point.
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