• Streets of London: Nunhead Lane, SE15

  • By Jessica Cargill Thompson


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    (click to enlarge) A The Old Nun's Head B The Pyrotechnists Arms C FC Soper D Ayres bakery

    The area’s still low on entertainment though our music section tips the regular Klinker sessions (freeform jazz/poetry/art) and acoustic nights at the Ivy House pub (40 Stuart Road, 020 7732 0222). For outdoor types there’s the famous, and quite spectacular, Victorian cemetery plus the vast expanse of Peckham Rye.

    Though Nunhead’s inhabitants are as eclectic as its building stock (with a bias towards OAPs) it’s already on the radar of those who find nearby East Dulwich and, increasingly, Peckham Rye overpriced. Young families are snapping up two- and three-bed houses down prettier streets such as Barfoth Road, Carden Road, Hollydale Road and Ansdell Road, while single professionals cluster towards Queens Road, Peckham for swift links into town. Paul Curtis at estate agent Roy Brooks describes it as ‘first-time-buyer land’ and reports that prices are rising sharply: a two-bed house that he sold for £299,950 in February would have been £245,000 a year ago.
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    Transport
    Nunhead BR is a swift 14 minutes by rail into Blackfriars or 18 minutes into Victoria. The P12 bus will get you to Surrey Quays, the 78 to Shoreditch, the 484 to Camberwell and the 343 to London Bridge.

    Estate Agents

    Acorn
    (020 8516 3666/www.acorn.ltd.uk).
    Ludlow Thompson
    (020 8299 8777/www.ludlowthompson.com).
    Property In
    (020 8693 8000/www.propertyin.com).
    Roy Brooks
    (020 8299 3021/www.roybrooks.co.uk).

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15 comments

  1. Posted by sisstarmamam on 27 May 2011 08:49

    be a part of the studio peeps. this is a filmed event that will be made into a programme
    artist this week-myself-m-dot rich-trissha irie-soca devettes-masky-shan the poet-masky john the voice miss bailly-lady d film maker and poet in box me to get on the guest list or on the door will cost £10 on the guest list will cost £5. the old nuns head se15 3qq kick off 7pm unless you are attending the poerty work shop @ 5pm the cost £10- break though your fear word power and heal thy self and share what would you like to do with your poetry

    The Old Nun's Head
    15 Nunhead Green
    London
    SE15 3QQ
    ...
    020 7639 4007

  2. Posted by lee on 13 Apr 2011 20:19

    The Nunshead Pub
    Hosts a Pop-Up-Shop on the 1st Saturday of every month
    with over 20 diverse traders selling, clothes, pre-loved labels, vintage ceramics, Hand thrown pies, cup cakes, art, photography, felt jewellery, silver, vintage clothes, perspex jewellery and MUCH MORE.
    Next event 7th may 11.30 to 5pm
    FUTURE DATES 4th June & 2nd July.
    Come and shop and the pub serves AMAZING FOOD!

  3. Posted by loz on 02 Sep 2010 13:51

    can anyone tell me if francis place is still there and if not when did the road name dissapear /what has replaced it/also what was the area like i 'm going back about a hundread years

  4. Posted by Bob on 21 Aug 2010 17:04

    To Nunhead Resident,
    You're referring to property as 'shelter'. Why don't you try a cave?

  5. Posted by Rev ---saktipada Mahanto on 09 Mar 2010 03:47

    Dear sir .Thank . from India I am speaking . London is so much beautifull place.but India is no comper about it , please contract with us .our ngos is women centre action society , please India visit , our ngos , for some day ; fullco-operation to you from our sode. thank

  6. Posted by Joe farinaro on 25 Feb 2010 21:16

    Dear sirs, My mother grew up in a house at 10 Nun head lane or green, she often told erie stories about the pub & a tunnel going from the house to to nuns head pub. she came to America during WW2, Her name is Florence Smith, the last of 16 children. I'm looking for any relatives that may still be in the area. Best regards, Joe Farinaro. > USA

  7. Posted by Christine Middleton(nee Chandler-Honnor) on 11 Oct 2009 18:21

    My grandparents,motherand uncles(the Gage family)lived at 49,Evelina Road,Nunhead from about 1906 to 1975 and all except the grandparents attended Hollydale Primary School.I was there from 1946 until 1953, when I moved on to Honor Oak School,Homestall Road where my mother had been in the 1930's.I would love to hear from anyone who may still be living in the area who remembers the family,maybe as a neighbour or from schooldays.When I left Honor Oak in 1960 I went to Goldsmiths'College where I trained as a primary teacher and began my teaching career in 1963 at Torridon Infant School,before moving to Worthing,Sussex in 1965.I married Richard in 1970 and we lived in Twickenham and had two sons,Simon and Tim in 1972 and 1975.In 1985 we returned to Sussex.I still visit "my roots" as Simon has been teaching in Dulwich for several years! I like to visit Ayres and have a little painting of the wool shop at Nunhead Green which I did when it was a hardware shop in the early 1960,s.There were Typhoo Tea adverts at the top of the windows!(J.P.and Z.Matthews)I have vivid memories of Nunhead and would love to share them with others who would like to contact me! Christine

  8. Posted by Zuzana Michalickova on 02 Oct 2009 11:59

    I am sorry SD that you have got such a bad experience with estate agents.I have got a property in Nunhead 1 bed flat which I was trying to rent.I have managed now but I needed to go down with the rent.I had too many people DSS and I will never rent it to them.I am shocked as the estate agents charge so much money I had it with Foxtons and they were not able to rent it as well as they called me all the time to lower the rent.I told them fine but lower your fees.They said that they can not do that.
    You realy have to meet every tenant and have a kind of 6 sence to know that whom you take will pay your rent.I prefer to wait 2 to 3 month and get good tenant.
    it is very stresfull to wait for people and they never turn up.
    If you like you cna contact me and I can manage your properties for you or help to find you tenants for smaller fee then estate agents/
    RegardsZuzana

  9. Posted by Clive Dockwray on 02 Mar 2009 13:19

    Nunhead is one of those places in London that no one has really heard of but may have passed through on the train sometimes on the way to Victoria.
    By far the most interesting part is the cemetery ! Really ! A lovely quiet place that was once a grand burial ground for the rich. Tours last Sunday of each month (2.30 PM)

  10. Posted by vicky day on 23 Feb 2009 22:53

    Ivydale Road (and the roads that branch of it) have the most affordable and spacious Victorian houses. This is the 'grander' end of Nunhead. Either side of the Ivydale Road backs onto open space, a school field one side and the cemetery the other. A rarity in London not to be overlooked in your back garden.

  11. Posted by Vicky Day on 23 Feb 2009 22:44

    I have lived in Nunhead for 5 years. It is full of young professional families. A great place to meet other mums, there is so much to do. Full of toddler clubs and of course great walks in the beautiful Nunhead cemetery or Peckham Rye park. Nunhead is a hidden gem but definitely on the up
    It is an unpretentious, safe 'villiage' with good bus and train links into town.
    For anyone looking to move south east, I would say Nunhead is the pace to be in 2009!

  12. Posted by Nunhead Resident on 17 Jan 2009 18:13

    To the absent oversea landlord who had problem with Ludlow Thompson, serve you right. Living off the backs of others and exploiting the fundamental human need for shelter, Go back crawl under your stone. We don't want middle class property developers in Nunhead.

  13. Posted by M. G on 03 Jan 2009 17:34

    I don't know about Ludlow Thompson - but Roy Brooks are completely unprofessional.

  14. Posted by Tits&&Boobies on 30 Dec 2008 15:26

    I LIVE IN NUNHEAD AND ITS THE BEST. I LIVE ON LINDEN GROVE, A FABULOUS STREET WITH WONDERFUL NEIGHBOURS. I,VE BEEN LVING IN NUNHEAD FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS. HAD NO PROBLEMS WAT SO EVER . I WILL GIVE IT A 10 OUT OF 10

  15. Posted by greg coram on 06 Aug 2008 15:50

    what about that wonderful modern wood and zinc building on the corner next to the old nunshead and gordon road

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