


The meteoric rise and fall of Vauxhall’s Detective Chief Inspector Nathaniel Druscovich

Keybridge House: the brutalist beauty that went down fighting

Remembering Vauxhall Cross in the 1990s: Filming the squeegies

Sir John Soane at Vauxhall Gardens

The True Cost of Fireworks: Sarah Ann Vaughan Williams and Caroline Bridges, two 11-year-olds

Hogarth’s Garden: A concert by London Early Opera – 23 June 2023

Tableaux Pyrotechniques, or Picture-Models at Vauxhall Gardens

John Mackay’s birthday visit to Vauxhall Gardens on 31 July 1837

Honouring Lambeth’s orchid artist Nelly Roberts

Edward Maxted, the firebrand vicar from Vauxhall who was once burnt in effigy

Phyllis Todd, much-travelled painter of a different stripe

Just published by The Vauxhall Society: Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens by David E. Coke

The Space Art of Ralph Smith in Vauxhall

Henry Evans Evanion, ‘The Royal Conjuror’ of Kennington

Louise Michel, anarchist heroine of the Paris Commune, tours the Lambeth workhouse

Watercolour nostalgia for Vauxhall Gardens

Talk: Anarchist in the UK: Louise Michel, heroine of the Paris Commune, in south London

Claudia Jones’s Vauxhall years and the genesis of the West Indian Gazette

The Prisoners’ Friend: The Work of the Indefatigable Mrs Meredith in south London

Knaves or ‘Slaves’? – the Waiters of Vauxhall Gardens

When John Archer took aim at injustice

Who was the mystery ‘Lady of Colour’ who sang and gave a pianoforte recital at Vauxhall Gardens in 1822?

When ‘Vauxhall’ changed gear and hit the road to make motoring history

Myth and Monolith – The Nine Elms Cold Store

Fun and Games at Vauxhall: ‘The New and Favorite Game of Mother Goose and the Golden Egg’, a board game of 1808

The Man in the White Cotton Suit: William Roupell, MP, Treachery and Fraud in Queen Victoria’s Lambeth

Vauxhall Park not lost for lavender

Lambeth Palace Library move recalls marriage scandals of past times

Time-travelling back to 1752 and Vauxhall Gardens via Virtual Reality

Screen siren Jane Russell and her South Lambeth adoption sensation

When Vauxhall Gardens went global but The Grove lost its groove and the bandstand missed a beat

Millicent Fawcett and Vauxhall Park

“The Great Original” – C.H. Simpson, Master of Ceremonies at the Royal Gardens Vauxhall 1797–1835

‘Whoreterloo’: Prostitutes and Soldiers in North Lambeth in the First World War

Philip Astley, ringmaster of the modern Circus, commemorated at Westminster Bridge

Light-up and lift-off at the British Interplanetary Society, Vauxhall’s ‘space station’

The unstoppable Sidney Lewis, Tooting’s pre-teen Somme machine-gunner

‘Balloonomania’ and England’s first lady of flight

No life for a lady along the Lambeth shore – the adventures and misadventures of Rachel Charlotte Williams Biggs

Care to help honour Lambeth’s dead of the First World War?

Kennington, 1795: a highwayman’s dance of death on the gallows

‘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

Walcot Foundation: 350 years of helping ‘the Lambeth poor’

Not even Good Queen Bess could barge up Brixton Hill from Vauxhall for a date with Sir Walter Raleigh – River Effra: London’s Secret Spine by Jon Newman

1877: when Old Father Thames turned on his children – again

Anthony Eyton RA on the ‘lure of Brixton’

Somme veterans’ eyewitness accounts surface in Vauxhall

Clapham Through Time: Alyson Wilson and Claire Fry’s Clapham then and now

Whatever became of hit-parader Winifred Atwell’s murals?

Rifleman Hutson: an only son missing on the Somme and from the Stockwell War Memorial

Love’s Labours Lost: the Morley College murals of Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden

Important Places: artist Virginia Powell on why she chronicles ‘lifelines’

Handel at Vauxhall

1969: The Vauxhall Society Seven ‘resist further intrusions by industry and road traffic’

Robert Cocking: rise and fatal fall of a pioneer parachutist

Dr Johnson and the Vauxhall Gardens Mysteries

“Our quest does not appear to take us to very fashionable regions”: Sherlock Holmes and Lambeth

Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, ‘Bubbles’ and the ‘Lift boy of Vauxhall’

Oval brick a brac? The Richardsons of Vauxhall and Brunswick Wharf

Southbank Mosaics: Public Realm improvements and social mission

Vauxhall’s other pleasure gardens and a ‘Vauxhall Cross Plan’ of yesterday

Gilbert Bayes and the Doulton House frieze

‘Representations of the Child, displayed at Vauxhall Gardens and the Foundling Hospital’


