Letitia Sage was an actress who on 29 June 1785 at St George’s Fields, as Sharon Wright writes, became the first Englishwoman to fly.
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Rolfe Judd’s light-touch makeover of a Victorian Chapel
This year the architects and town-planners Rolfe Judd celebrate the 50th anniversary of the … Read More
No life for a lady along the Lambeth shore – the adventures and misadventures of Rachel Charlotte Williams Biggs
There’s fascinating information about 18th-century Lambeth to be found in A Georgian Heroine by … Read More
A litter-bin now marks the spot in Vauxhall Gardens where once stood Roubiliac’s life-size statue of Handel: Free Vauxhall Gardens guided history walk, 21 May 2018
Join historian David Coke on a Vauxhall Society/Vauxhall History guided walk back through time to … Read More
The Old Vic, young Mary Ashford and a brutal killer: the opening night of the Royal Coburg Theatre, 11 May 1818
Vauxhall History co-editor Naomi Clifford's The Murder of Mary Ashford: The Crime That Changed … Read More
Free Vauxhall Park walk: 21 April 2018
Care to help honour Lambeth’s dead of the First World War?
Injury time at Blissets, The Oval, 1960–2015
Kennington, 1795: a highwayman’s dance of death on the gallows
Saturday 10 February: ‘South Lambeth Road Stories’ guided walk with Sean Creighton
‘Princess Seraphina’ steps out at Vauxhall Gardens
Was Vauxhall’s Prince of Wales as ‘Black’ as the French paint him?
Why ‘missing’ Vauxhall plaque drives Vauxhall Motors fans up the wall
Brixton Market 1936: silk knickers 2½ pence a leg, streaky bacon 3½ pence per pound
The Doulton fairytale tiles that survived Vauxhall’s Blitz
The St Peter’s organ appeal: time to pull out all the stops?
