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The Peckham Experiment took place in the 1930s and 1940s. Two doctors in South London set up The Pioneer Health Centre with the aim of preventing bad health.
The building survives, in St. Mary's Road, Peckham, although it has now been converted into luxury flats. It has been open to the public on London Open House Weekend, which in 2005 will take place on the 19th and 20th September.
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Mary Langman
Mary Langman, who has died at the age of 95, was a pivotal contributor to the development of the wholefood and organic movement in Britain. (26 Apr 2004)
The 'hole in the bucket' in medical care the Peckham Experiment was not permitted to repair - by government negligence
It was sixty years ago, in 1935, that two biologist doctors created the Pioneer Health Centre in Queen's Road, Peckham, south-east London, which became known as the Peckham Experiment, in a building of glass which the well known architect, Walter Gropius, described as 'an oasis of glass in a desert of brick'. The building was described at night as looking like a lit-up ocean liner. (Contemporary Review, May 1995)
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