I grew up in the gritty times when Peckham living was bad. Mid-90s when the Peckham Boys were in early formation from the North Peckham estate. Damn I love and hate this place. So many good and bad memories. Wouldn’t change a thing though it was the best childhood! Hate to see the gentrification killing my friends businesses and pushing out families.
@@davidmccann9811 yep 85. When the woman was shot by police. The carpet warehouse on Peckham High St was set ablaze. I doubt the gentrifiers would dare set up shop then.
Still living in Peckham while watching this feels like I’m one of the last ones left cannot lie Peckham has shaped me but never broke me but I thank god for the positive outcome on who I am today 😊
I hate the gentrification of peckham....... The best times was growing up in peckham between late 70s-90s......Gloucester grove estate....imma always have peckham in my heart.
@sanjay j You sound like Enoch Powell (or what many of the native British said after Windrush). No one has a god-given right to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world (especially in taxpayer-subsidised housing).
@@anonymoust2877 Ah no worries, there are too many race-baiters on the internet these days- he was trying to preach on the is Peckham Changing vid as well.
i am from Ukraine. Have lived in Peckham for 11 years, never had any troubles, other nationalities just enrich Britain. I love that area, library which I helped to improve on builidng works, parks, Netto shop, Liiddle. Miss you guys so much. Peckham is the best
I'm from Poland. Lived in Peckham for 6 years. Never had any problems either. However after my kids were born I moved out of London. Not a good place to raise your kids. Especially Peckham
I moved from Elsted road in SE17 to Goldsmith road in SE15 in 74-75, then moved to the States in 81. I saw the last portions of the Aylesbury estate and the North Peckham estate get built. We played on the roofs of Bells Garden, before their construction was completed. I just got back to the States after spending 10 incredible days staying at an AirBnb on the Friary Estate. Yes, Peckham has changed. It was in transition when I left. I was pleased to see that the vibrancy that has always made Peckham special is still there. My hope is that the regeneration really does include "all," and I wouldn't mind seeing, when I return next year, a resurrected "Bouncing Ball/Mr. Bees." One love!!
I was born in Peckham (1931, don't tell any body) I was invited to the country side by Mr. Hitler in 1939 and again in 1940. I returned to Peckham in 1945 when it was much the same as 1939 except quite a few houses were missing. As a result of a job move I left Peckham early 1960s. During the 1950s and 1960/61 after a night out in the West End I would sometimes walk from the Elephant to Peckham or on occasions from Brixton to Pechham quite safely and with no thought of fear. Is it the same now??
I was born in Peckham in 1969 and lived there until I was 26 in 1995. Back in the 80s I used to go to clubs in the West End and walk back home at 2 or 3 in the morning. Through Elephant and Castle, down the Old Kent road to Trafalgar Avenue to where I lived on Acorn Estate. I never had any problems in all those years.
Peckham was a war zone and is only just starting to ease off now in 2020 - 2021 and its still in the red zone, minimum yellow zone for me most people. Good luck to those who live there though
Good doc. Peckham is unrecognisable for me now. Family grew up, Camden estate then moved to Sumner road. Very rough area everyone saying it was fine are posh kids with no street smarts (oblivious) or peple that lived after 2010 when it changed mroe rapidly. I saw couple people dead from stabbings in person just passing by once on the bus and once walking near southampton way estate. There was a kid 17, shot in the head and they tried to burn his body in the boot of a car at the end of Sumner. Wood dene estate, woman cradling baby at christening, shot in the head while holding the baby, Damilola Taylor.. the list goes on. Not tryna glorify it, that's just the reality and when you lived there and heard all these stories you had to walk the street with an eye on your back, especially at night. When the estates were still up people would hide in the garages at bottom and run out and rob people. Although less dangerous now it lacks the character now, all the small unique shops like the chinese shop at bottom of rye lane that sold nunchukau places like that all gone, full of hipsters now, I remember seeing them and thinking rah, it's like shoreditch. Peckham is dead to me but it will always be a place I remember good memories and bad. It built my character for sure.
I Live in peckam in the early 90 I from Marseille south offre fr I am white m'y Best place Was the red Bull My best friend Was african ans jamaican Il was 20 That Was the best time of my live i left in 95 Get back 20 year later to show my place to my Child. Il could not stop criying Every thing i knew as disapear . Hate gentification Will alwais be à peckam boy
Peckham has changed big time, from 1998 to 2015 it had a big bad and dangerous gang culture reputation, and that's how people new it from outside of Peckham, from music video's to hearing stabbings and shootings on the news which came from Peckham allot, but NOW it has changed and become abit more safer than before, because of new buildings and more mixture of culture.
My old man said never go shopping down the Lane for shoes with your mother so I listen to him but when I got married my wife said lets go shoe shopping and like a complete idiot I went with her down Rye Lane 4 hours later after trying on 20+ shoes in over a dozen shops she bough the first pair she tried on! Peckham back in the 60/70's was a safe place now I don't think so.🤔
There are a LOT of poor families suffering in this area. I lived there in the 70s, 80s and 90s. People had jobs in the 70s. The high street was vibrant with a M&S and there was an actual department store called Jones & Higgins. Then from the early 80s the area transitioned into poverty a LOT of people moved out and it got poorer poorer and poorer. The gentrification started in the early 90s and has slowly taken over the area. I never understood why the council did not do more to preserve the appearance of the top of Rye Lane. But a lot of social housing was built during this era.
It was poor in the 70s though. I know what you mean about Rye Lane being really busy and having all of those great shops, with Woolworths, BHS, Jones and Higgins etc. But most of us didn't have much back then.
POVERTY £15 ZPLUS A LITTLE SOMETHING A WEEK AN WHEN AM A GOOD BOY THATS RIGHT DAVID IVE BEEN SPOILT A LITTLE LATELY £35 END OF MONTH OOOOOOOO THE GOOD LIFE CERTAINLY DAVID
Well it's because you guys haven't integrated. Peckham is so segregated. Plus due to current politics, races are deeply divided and we don't rust each other.
THE PECKHAM ? WOODPECKERS IT MAKES SENSE WHO AGREES PECK PECK PECK ITS QUITE HARD TO UNDERSTAND COLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS AN MEANINGS ORIGINS PICK US UP SOME HAM DEAR ? WHAT FOR DINNER PECK HAM ?
Since the hipsters moved in for cheap rent and access to drugs the gentrification started, then more "funny" people moved in, now the prince of peckham guy is talking about welcome to the funnies...kmt The only people that go to peckham levels are not the locals, it's this new crowd of people who were warned by their parents never to go to peckham because it's dangerous (poor). They only come to rebel against their posh parents and get a thrill of being somewhere considered dangerous, for the insta likes!
I lived in Dulwich and worked in Peckham for years and I believe that Peckham should never lose what it means to us all.
I grew up in the gritty times when Peckham living was bad. Mid-90s when the Peckham Boys were in early formation from the North Peckham estate. Damn I love and hate this place. So many good and bad memories. Wouldn’t change a thing though it was the best childhood! Hate to see the gentrification killing my friends businesses and pushing out families.
Remember when we had the riots in the 80s?
@@davidmccann9811 yep 85. When the woman was shot by police. The carpet warehouse on Peckham High St was set ablaze. I doubt the gentrifiers would dare set up shop then.
Still living in Peckham while watching this feels like I’m one of the last ones left cannot lie Peckham has shaped me but never broke me but I thank god for the positive outcome on who I am today 😊
I hate the gentrification of peckham....... The best times was growing up in peckham between late 70s-90s......Gloucester grove estate....imma always have peckham in my heart.
Mrs F yh even tho it was rough, it was home memories and excitement now they make it boring
@sanjay j You sound like Enoch Powell (or what many of the native British said after Windrush). No one has a god-given right to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world (especially in taxpayer-subsidised housing).
@@hc2155 trussssss ty for dis
@@anonymoust2877 Ah no worries, there are too many race-baiters on the internet these days- he was trying to preach on the is Peckham Changing vid as well.
i am from Ukraine. Have lived in Peckham for 11 years, never had any troubles, other nationalities just enrich Britain. I love that area, library which I helped to improve on builidng works, parks, Netto shop, Liiddle. Miss you guys so much. Peckham is the best
I'm from Poland. Lived in Peckham for 6 years. Never had any problems either. However after my kids were born I moved out of London. Not a good place to raise your kids. Especially Peckham
I moved from Elsted road in SE17 to Goldsmith road in SE15 in 74-75, then moved to the States in 81. I saw the last portions of the Aylesbury estate and the North Peckham estate get built. We played on the roofs of Bells Garden, before their construction was completed. I just got back to the States after spending 10 incredible days staying at an AirBnb on the Friary Estate. Yes, Peckham has changed. It was in transition when I left. I was pleased to see that the vibrancy that has always made Peckham special is still there. My hope is that the regeneration really does include "all," and I wouldn't mind seeing, when I return next year, a resurrected "Bouncing Ball/Mr. Bees." One love!!
LOl you literally missed all the time it was rough and came back when it was gentrified to fuck.
Its Hitsquad babyyyy!!
“Only fools and horses”. Hello to Dell Boy and Rodney 💪🏻🤣
I was born in Peckham (1931, don't tell any body) I was invited to the country side by Mr. Hitler in 1939 and again in 1940. I returned to Peckham in 1945 when it was much the same as 1939 except quite a few houses were missing. As a result of a job move I left Peckham early 1960s. During the 1950s and 1960/61 after a night out in the West End I would sometimes walk from the Elephant to Peckham or on occasions from Brixton to Pechham quite safely and with no thought of fear. Is it the same now??
bbcisrubbish there isn’t much danger, unless ur rich obviously
I was born in Peckham in 1969 and lived there until I was 26 in 1995. Back in the 80s I used to go to clubs in the West End and walk back home at 2 or 3 in the morning. Through Elephant and Castle, down the Old Kent road to Trafalgar Avenue to where I lived on Acorn Estate. I never had any problems in all those years.
@@brokenbritain1930 I am pleased to hear that. No, I am not rich.
@@davidmccann9811 There does appear to be a fair bit about Peckham on YOU TUBE, but not about Nunhead where I was born and lived from 1945 until 1963.
Peckham was a war zone and is only just starting to ease off now in 2020 - 2021 and its still in the red zone, minimum yellow zone for me most people. Good luck to those who live there though
Loving the colouring and shot selection bro 🎥🎬
I live by where the street shots of Desmonds were filmed. Its a posh street now. Dulwich is spreading into Peckham
I am from America but I used to watch The Desmonds here..That's how I learned of Peckham.
Also the show 'Only fools and horses' was set in Peckham, which was big in the day.
@@Dom-fx4kt I've never heard of that one before. But I have always loved British shows. Especially the comedies.
@@dianadamcknight9902 It's a comedy too, and a classic. You might like it.
Peckham is now undergoing massive regeneration.
@@Dom-fx4kt The early episodes of Only Fools and Horses were good from 1981 to 1983 then it went down hill.
Worked all around Peckham for 10 years never had any problems people are mostly friendly.
How? when a 10 year old boy was murdered name Damilola Taylor. That was really bad news to the USA.
@@msgoldie1661 that was like 20 years ago
this is really good bro. thank you for creating
I used to party in Peckham back in the 80's.
Any one else come looking for Del and Rodney 😂😂😂😂
Lol
Yeah lol, think we’re 3 or 4 decades too late 😂 that era dead, London chances fast by the looks of things.
Looking for Desmond's
Brilliant work buddy. From a peckham resident
10:05 I was waiting for a drone shot of my estate 😂💥💥💥
Teeprodz lol it wouldn’t be a film about Peckham without a shot of yellow brick! (Please subscribe)
Shane Duncan Real talk. Subbed
I used to watch them.film desmonds on bellendend road I met the whole cast they used to let us get involved on set cool guys
Desmond’s was and is a classic .. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 watched it when In my youth days 👏🏾👏🏾🇬🇧🇬🇧
The video got gentrified at the end
peckham used to be nice now its a dump
Good doc. Peckham is unrecognisable for me now. Family grew up, Camden estate then moved to Sumner road. Very rough area everyone saying it was fine are posh kids with no street smarts (oblivious) or peple that lived after 2010 when it changed mroe rapidly. I saw couple people dead from stabbings in person just passing by once on the bus and once walking near southampton way estate. There was a kid 17, shot in the head and they tried to burn his body in the boot of a car at the end of Sumner. Wood dene estate, woman cradling baby at christening, shot in the head while holding the baby, Damilola Taylor.. the list goes on. Not tryna glorify it, that's just the reality and when you lived there and heard all these stories you had to walk the street with an eye on your back, especially at night. When the estates were still up people would hide in the garages at bottom and run out and rob people.
Although less dangerous now it lacks the character now, all the small unique shops like the chinese shop at bottom of rye lane that sold nunchukau places like that all gone, full of hipsters now, I remember seeing them and thinking rah, it's like shoreditch. Peckham is dead to me but it will always be a place I remember good memories and bad. It built my character for sure.
they pulled down some nice houses to build that car park .we had the old Peckham good old times the council has ruined it greed
Hi Shaun
Would love to use some of the footage for the intro to my series
LAZERDROME MASSIVE !!!🤘🏿
Desmond’s were from Guyana. Not Trinidad
So what now
what an interesting doc... I am not from UK but I find it extremely thoughtful
I Live in peckam in the early 90
I from Marseille south offre fr
I am white m'y Best place Was the red Bull
My best friend Was african ans jamaican
Il was 20 That Was the best time of my live i left in 95
Get back 20 year later to show my place to my Child. Il could not stop criying
Every thing i knew as disapear .
Hate gentification
Will alwais be à peckam boy
Those days were good, 90s in Peckham was great, went Red Bull and Lazerdrome. Its not the same anymore, crap shops and anti sovial people now.
Same, mivjng back there after 1p years and it is unrecognisable. I am so so sad and disappointed 😢
i hop on a plane, cross the pond just to daily duppy it through Peckham 😎 you heard ?
if you have never had KHF in Peckham your missing out swear
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Ha tell em again....shouts to bossman always with his cap backwards
Missing? ?
@@mukeshmakwana6906 best c&c shop on the strip if u don't mind that kinda food once in a while
Top documentary 👏
Good documentary episode, but why weren't areas such as Clapham / Stockwell or Streatham and New Cross included? It would have been nicer.
Was hoping to see cs
Who’s got a socials link to the girl at 0:33? It says shes an artist but cant find her anywhere
Zoners or Hitterz #2
PYG or SN1
Ur man are tapped HITSQUAD and zone2 are the same people😂🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
KeatsFN _ yes and everyone else know u fucking idiot
Hello, Enjoyed so far... where are the other episodes for this and The Brixton docuseries?
Peckham has changed big time, from 1998 to 2015 it had a big bad and dangerous gang culture reputation, and that's how people new it from outside of Peckham, from music video's to hearing stabbings and shootings on the news which came from Peckham allot, but NOW it has changed and become abit more safer than before, because of new buildings and more mixture of culture.
Seems like a cool place, has its bad and good areas innit
Interesting Segment. John Boyega put Peckham on the Map for Me & Many others. Thanks for sharing.
-From Los Angeles
lovely work
I lived at 10 brecknok house sumner Rd se 15 is it still there was there in 1963
I also went to Oliver gold Smith school
Brilliant work
Can anyone tell me where can I find st veronica r c school in Peckham se15 the school cease to exist the year is 1979. Thank you
@3mins get it right mate Desmond was Guyanese
exactly what i was thinking when he said it lol.
When I moved London the first place I live and work that is a Peckham love Peckham then and now best place
Ah, Peckham. The British Detroit.
Maxi I think u mean birmingham
Peckhams amazing, peak that its becoming neeky
lol I say I'm from old kent road
Me 2.. lol😂
I can't see u tho
Se u at macdonalds
The Home Place Of Zone 2/Hitsquad
PEKHAM PEKHAM PEKHAM WHO SAYS PECK THE HENS DO PECK PECK PECK PECK HRRRRMMMM
i like peckham a lot when i start in london 2009
best regards for all brave people from there
your pub is nice but expensive bruh
Don't go to betfred in Peckham
Been my area since 92, love it still, some off the incomers are cool, some utter shit, always been this way
Uni...'more calmer'? Hmm
What was the hood like in the Queen Elizabeth time lol 🤣💯
Peckham is the Philadelphia of the UK.
Philly is a whole city just like London, u cant compare. Peckham is like the Brooklyn of London
@@C.O-EDITS
Brixton is the Brooklyn, Peckham is the Bronx.
@@shabbasi9159 hear dookie
My old man said never go shopping down the Lane for shoes with your mother so I listen to him but when I got married my wife said lets go shoe shopping and like a complete idiot I went with her down Rye Lane 4 hours later after trying on 20+ shoes in over a dozen shops she bough the first pair she tried on! Peckham back in the 60/70's was a safe place now I don't think so.🤔
You lot needa come round to mt druitt
Shut up you weirdo no ones going Sydney 🤣
Desmond you know, this generation ain't got a fucking clue.. Dont@me!
There are a LOT of poor families suffering in this area. I lived there in the 70s, 80s and 90s. People had jobs in the 70s. The high street was vibrant with a M&S and there was an actual department store called Jones & Higgins. Then from the early 80s the area transitioned into poverty a LOT of people moved out and it got poorer poorer and poorer. The gentrification started in the early 90s and has slowly taken over the area. I never understood why the council did not do more to preserve the appearance of the top of Rye Lane. But a lot of social housing was built during this era.
Jones And Higgins :)
It was poor in the 70s though. I know what you mean about Rye Lane being really busy and having all of those great shops, with Woolworths, BHS, Jones and Higgins etc. But most of us didn't have much back then.
I live in Peckham
Same
SE15 forlife
I was born in Peckham.
@@bbcisrubbish same but I moved to Dulwich and then moved back to peckham
I love it but I need to mooove
The Only Good Thing to come out of Peckham are the trotters❗
Desmonds was from Guyana
He was Jamaican.
WELL THEY CERTAINLY BUILD YOU NICE APARTMENT BLOCKS
Home ❤️
IT'S MY MANNER
Manor😉
Pecknarm
How can a place sooooo bad be sooooo good!?
DAVIDS NOW GOING TO LOOK AT THE DISTRICT OF PECKHAM GRAND OLD OECKHAM MYDEARS
Interview Jesus
Desmond was from Guyana.
mans from walthamstow
Interview gundogan
Is there life in Peckham?
Is there life in Peckham?
Interview bernardo
Esattamente.. come non fosse successo niente..
Desmond was from Guyana not Trinidad bro
Is this a place in England or a refugee camp somewhere in Europe?
Both
PICKUM PEKHAM PEKKERS
PECKHAM, THEY HAVE GOT RID OF THE NICE PECKHAM, AND THE PEOPLE TOO. IT HAS LOST IT'S ESSENCE. 60S/70S, SE LONDON WAS FUN AND GREAT!!!
My surname is peckham
You should be proud.🤨
I was born here in Dulwich ward hospital
its still scary
worst estate of peckhams?
Rye land is wrong af
I walked there and back and it was like walking from England to South Africa
fuck off.
L m a o
400th subscriber
Not Trinidad it's Guyana
POVERTY £15 ZPLUS A LITTLE SOMETHING A WEEK AN WHEN AM A GOOD BOY THATS RIGHT DAVID IVE BEEN SPOILT A LITTLE LATELY £35 END OF MONTH OOOOOOOO THE GOOD LIFE CERTAINLY DAVID
😂 come to Englewood in Chicago.
As a white man the looks u get.
Oo ur so oppressed
@@sam-fq3ms works both ways you know
@Roger Doger white people actually cant walk down certain roads
Well it's because you guys haven't integrated. Peckham is so segregated. Plus due to current politics, races are deeply divided and we don't rust each other.
THE PECKHAM ? WOODPECKERS IT MAKES SENSE WHO AGREES PECK PECK PECK ITS QUITE HARD TO UNDERSTAND COLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS AN MEANINGS ORIGINS PICK US UP SOME HAM DEAR ? WHAT FOR DINNER PECK HAM ?
why can't the people in this vid speak English
wdym they're clearly speaking English
@@artx000 he’s a racist
Tf is this, where is zone 2
hear dookie
SE15 🖕🏾 u
Nah man that’s not the plan
Better take it back lol
g grigzz no😂😂
@@Joeldo._ smh
Since the hipsters moved in for cheap rent and access to drugs the gentrification started, then more "funny" people moved in, now the prince of peckham guy is talking about welcome to the funnies...kmt
The only people that go to peckham levels are not the locals, it's this new crowd of people who were warned by their parents never to go to peckham because it's dangerous (poor). They only come to rebel against their posh parents and get a thrill of being somewhere considered dangerous, for the insta likes!