Parents and children in Peckham, London, have launched a campaign to save the award-winning Livesey Museum for Children after the local council confirmed its plans to stop funding it.

See also:

• Friends of the Livesey Museum for Children
• 24 Hour Museum News
• Save the Livesey Campaign
• About the Livesey Museum

From South East London blogzine: ‘A friend has lent me a copy of the 1952 Official Guide to ‘The Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell’ from the days before Southwark Council when Camberwell had its own Council covering Peckham, Nunhead and of course Camberwell itself. .. The Guide says: “… the area seems to have been a centre of pram making. .. some of the finest perambulators in the world. Two well-known firms that specialise in these products pay particular attention to taste in colour and decoration, and the finished articles speak highly for the craftsmanship and regard given, not only to strength and durability, but also to individual character and beauty of line, the sine qua non of British Industry. …The firms in question were Royale Prams at the Besfoldas Works, 70a Nunhead Grove, SE15; and Deanes Limited at Denette Works, 163 Peckham Rye…”

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From Letters from Schwarzville: ‘Hooray! I went for a walk looking for a nice place to do some drawing, and went to my favourite tree on Peckham Rye - and found that they put a lovely busy family cafe in the park! So I ordered a cappuchino and drew many children…
Here’s my favourite. Such a good hairdo.’
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