Editing Peckham (section)

===20th century===
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[[File:Edward Turner Blue Plaque.jpg|thumb|London Borough of Southwark [[blue plaque]] awarded to motorbike designer [[Edward Turner (motorcycle designer)|Edward Turner]] unveiled in 2009 at his former residence, 8 Philip Walk, Peckham. Turner had run a motorbike shop, Chepstow Motors on Peckham High Street]]
In the 1930s George Scott Williamson and [[Innes Pearse]] opened the Pioneer Health Centre in Queens Road. They planned to conduct a large experiment into the effect of environment on health.
'[[The Peckham Experiment]]' recruited 950 families who paid one [[shilling]] ({{Inflation|UK|{{Pounds, shillings, and pence|s=1}}|1926|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}) a week for access to something like a modern sports club with facilities for physical exercise, games, workshops and socialising with no mandatory programme. The centre moved into a purpose-built modernist building by the architect [[Owen Williams (engineer)|Sir Owen Williams]] in 1935.
[[File:Young man running on the North Peckham Estate.jpg|thumb|North Peckham Estate, 1984.]]

{{visible anchor|North Peckham}} was heavily redeveloped in the 1960s, consisting mainly of high-rise flats to rehouse people from dilapidated old houses. It was popular on its completion for offering a high quality and modern standard of living. However, high unemployment and a lack of economic opportunities led to [[urban decay]] and a period of decline in the late 1970s. The North Peckham Estate became one of the most deprived residential areas in Western Europe. Vandalism, graffiti, arson attacks, burglaries, robberies and muggings were commonplace, and the area became an archetypal London [[sink estate]]. As a result, the area was subjected to a £290 million regeneration programme in the late 1990s and early 2000s. After the beginning of the regeneration, the estate gained nationwide notoriety in the media when 10-year-old Nigerian resident [[Damilola Taylor]] was stabbed to death on the estate on 27 November 2000.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1841755.stm |work=BBC News | title=Changing face of Damilola estate | date=25 April 2002 | access-date=22 May 2010}}</ref> A gang operating in the area is the [[Peckham Boys]].<ref name=King>King, Lorraine. [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/feb/11/ukcrime.theobserver "The inside story of gang life in Peckham"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 11 February 2007. Accessed 9 August 2011.</ref>

In the early 1990s Peckham was a centre of underground music partly due to a large squat known as The Dolehouse in a disused, two-floor [[DHSS]] building near Peckham High Street.<ref>{{cite book|title=Pete Frame's Rockin' Around Britain: Rock'n'roll Landmarks of the UK and Ireland|first=Pete|last=Frame|publisher=Music Sales Group|year=1999|isbn=978-0-711-96973-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/peteframesrockin0000fram}}</ref> The building was already known for having featured in the cover shot of a 1980s pictorial biography of 1960s' mods, featuring them on their customised scooters outside the then Camberwell Labour Exchange. In 1989 the squatters adopted the name ''Dole House Crew'' and along with another local group of squatters called the "Green Circus", held regular gigs/parties in the building. They moved on to many other [[South East (London sub region)|South East London]] venues after the Peckham Dolehouse was evicted in late October 1990. A [[squatting|squatted]] [[social centre]] called the [[Spike Surplus Scheme]] ran from 1998 until being evicted by the council in 2009.

Peckham was one of the areas where riots took place during the [[2011 England riots]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14450557 "London riots: 'Everyone was very fired up'"], [[BBC News]], 9 August 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2011.</ref>

Peckham was home to the Peckham Black Women's Centre until 1990,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-07-30 |title=Transpontine: Peckham Black Womens Group 1985 |url=http://transpont.blogspot.com/2014/07/peckham-black-womens-group-1985.html |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=Transpontine}}</ref> and to [[the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre]] from 1992 to 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rainbow Plaque: Black Lesbian & Gay Centre - Studio Voltaire |url=https://studiovoltaire.org/whats-on/black-lesbian-gay-centre-rainbow-plaque/ |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=studiovoltaire.org |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2024 a [[Rainbow plaque|Rainbow Plaque]] commemorating the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre was unveiled on [[Bellenden Road]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=EDITOR |date=2024-02-20 |title=Peckham's Black Lesbian & Gay Centre marked with new Rainbow Plaque |url=https://diva-magazine.com/2024/02/20/black-lesbian-gay-centre-rainbow-plaque/ |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=diva-magazine.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>