VicLondon-Peckham

Peckham, Southwark

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South of this area, the former town of Peckham has been consolidated into London’s sprawl. Like Battersea and Putney, this is a middle-class area, inhabited by skilled labour and of ce workers that can afford to buy a home on the outskirts and take the train or omnibus into town. The area is dominated, once again, by canyons of townhouses, all joined together, or surrounded by small gardens with hedge works to separate the homes. The place is especially busy in the early morning (usually around dawn) and the evening (usually around eight o’clock) when the men are trekking into or out of the city and their workplaces.

Unlike Bermondsey, which is almost exclusively poor, with a high crime rate and a low police presence away from the rail station and high streets, Peckham has low policing and generally low crime. Although the neighbourhood is mostly respectable and quiet, there are pockets throughout Peckham and Peckham New Town where the building owners are either absentee landlords, or simply do not care. In these areas of Peckham, tenements and single family homes are turned into poor-packed slums, with the attendant high crime and violence.