The Hannah Barry Gallery at the Bussey Building.

On the evening of Thursday 21st February the first floor of the Bussey Building was packed with people celebrating the opening of MANY WORLDS by Bobby Dowler, the second exhibition of the year from the Hannah Barry Gallery (see photos).

The exhibition is on the first floor at The Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, Peckham SE15. This Victorian cricket bat factory is just across the road from Peckham Rye station.

The exhibition will run until Friday 29^th February, open 3 – 8 pm daily and 12 – 5 pm at the weekend, accompanied by a sequence of timed events: click for details.

A “food desert”? Peckham? Don’t make Conrad Heine laugh. Stroll down Rye Lane for an exotic array of okra, cassava, sheep stomachs and goat heads. Though an assertive, don’t-meet-eyes stride is usually called for …

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From Economist.com Correspondet’s Diary: ‘WALKING home from Peckham town centre, I often detour down the tree-lined walkway along the old Grand Surrey Canal. Completed in 1811, it was intended to link the Thames at Rotherhithe with Surrey. It only made it as far as Peckham. Industry, notably timberyards and lime kilns, grew along its banks.

In the early 1970s, the canal, by then derelict and filthy, was filled in. Although I never saw it, I mourn for it…’

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