
Peckham in 1913 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: three versions for this area have been published to show how it developed across the years. The maps each cover the same area, stretching from Denmark Hill station eastward to Queen's Road station & Asylum Road; & from Rosemary Road southward to Nunhead Green. Peckham Road & High Street runs west-east across the map, with tramway; further south the railways run across, with Peckham Rye station in the lower centre of the map. Other features of these very busy maps include Peckham House lunatic asylum, Camberwell Workhouse, Brunswick Square, Eagle Mill, Rye Lane, tramways & tram depot, railways including engine sheds, St Giles church, Brunswick Square, Camberwell Town Hall, Surrey Canal with Peckham Wharf, north end of Peckham Rye Common. The following Wards are named on the map: Town Hall, St Giles, Lyndhurst, Goldsmith, Rye Lane, St Mary's & Nunhead Wards (though some extend onto adjacent maps). The map is largely part of Camberwell Borough. On the reverse are street directory extracts for (1871 map) Brunswick Square, Church Street, Camberwell Grove, Grove Lane, Southampton St, etc; & (1894 map) Camberwell Grove, Grove Lane, High Street, Hill Street & Rye Lane. Features on the 1913 map include Kings College Hospital, Angell Town, Ruskin Park, tramways & tramway depot, Camberwell New Road & Loughborough Junction stations, railway works at Stockwell, South Western Hospital, Myatts Fields. The countless streets include Stockwell Road, Stockwell Park Road, Brixton Road, Wiltshire Road, Cormont Road, Flaxman Road, Camberwell New Road, Denmark Hill, & scores more. On the reverse there are street directories for Camberwell New Road, Clapham Road, Coldharbour Lane, Denmark Hill, Knatchbull Road & Vassall Road. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25