Del Boy’s Peckham parking spot in Only Fools and Horses has turned into a nice little earner
DEL Boy’s parking spot in Only Fools and Horses has turned into a cushty cash cow.
Wheeler-dealer Derek Trotter would have to pay £2,860 a year, or £55 a week, to leave his yellow Reliant Regal van outside his block of flats.
Analysis by the JustPark app, which allows people to charge others to use their drives, found rates have shot up in Peckham, South London, since the BBC sitcom’s 1980s heyday.
Hiring the spot would have been the perfect get-rich-quick scheme for Del, played by Sir David Jason.
JustPark CEO Anthony Eskinazi said: “It turns out he was sitting on a nice little earner right on his doorstep all along.”
Peckham was a working-class surburb when Only Fools began in 1981 but has changed dramatically due to gentrification.
Del left his motor outside fictional high-rise Nelson Mandela House, where he lived with brother Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst).
The block used for filming was in Acton in West London.
But Peckham house prices can now reach £3million.
Even one-bed flats, like Del and Rodney’s, go for £500,000.
Pubs like The Nag’s Head where Del drank pina coladas have been replaced by trendy, craft-beer bars.
And greasy spoons like Sid’s Cafe where Del and Rodney enjoyed fry-ups have been joined by gastropubs offering fine dining.
Peckham is also a hotspot in the capital’s underground music scene.