By Lucy Kenningham Chaos and skullduggery at South East London’s most charged event: Peckham Conker Club A conker is a powerful thing. Planted in the right conditions, it will grow into a horse chestnut tree, a magnificent arbor which – if not felled to make a statue of a buddha or a pencil or a boat – could live for three centuries. The horse chestnut tree is not native to Britain. It is Turkish, having appeared on these shores in the 16th century. It took a further two centuries for the people of these islands to develop the game of conkers, with the first match recorded on the Isle of Wight…