The musician Nick Nicely’s 1982 cult psychedelic track “Hilly Fields” was inspired by the park of the same name. Drum and bass artist Remarc made a record called "Sound Murderer (Loafin' in Brockley)" on Juno Records in the mid-1990s. Another drum and bass artist, Chris Inperspective has a track called "Brockley Central".
Two early novels by Henry Williamson (who lived on Eastern Road) describe the area in the early 1900s.
The Picturegoers The first novel by David Lodge is set in 1950's Brockley; thinly disguised as 'Brickley'.
In 2003 the BBC1 documetary Worlds Apart showed two Brockley families living within yards of each other; one in a council flat the other in a large house.
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