When Peckham had a Health Centre …… and we lived on Lausanne Road

Now if I am accurate, by the time this picture was taken it had ceased to be the Health Centre and was run by Southwark Council as a leisure centre.

Me and Bobby Potts, 1953

And it was there that I went for swimming lessons during my first year at Samuel Pepys in 1961, and where our Elizabeth and Stella went to nursery.

The picture is not the best, but then it is 69 years old and was taken on a camera which long ago qualified as a museum piece.

And that is about it other than to say its story has been told on various sites,* but back in 1954 I doubt me and Bobby Potts had any idea of its existence even though it was there in the top corner of the photograph.

Location; Lausanne Road 

Picture; garden of 26 Lausanne Road, circa 1953, from the Simpson collection

*THE PIONEER HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH LONDON GALLERY, HTTPS://WWW.SOUTHLONDONGALLERY.ORG/HISTORY-COLLECTIONS/SLG-ARCHIVE/THE-PIONEER-HEALTH-CENTRE/