Why do all Russian railway stations carry the name of an English middle-class car? Eric Dymock explains all.
Myth and Monolith – The Nine Elms Cold Store
A new skyscraper – or two – thrusts itself up into the skies of Vauxhall-Nine Elms every year, it … Read More
Fun and Games at Vauxhall: ‘The New and Favorite Game of Mother Goose and the Golden Egg’, a board game of 1808
By David Coke In 2019 I attended a lecture intriguingly entitled 'The Shows and Sights of … Read More
The Man in the White Cotton Suit: William Roupell, MP, Treachery and Fraud in Queen Victoria’s Lambeth
By Olga and Michael Leapman A story as striking and incidents as strange as ever have occurred … Read More
Vauxhall Park not lost for lavender
The opening of a lavender garden on the former bowling green in 2004 is one of the cheerier and … Read More
Lambeth Palace Library move recalls marriage scandals of past times
Following in Nellie Roberts’ brushstrokes – the work of orchid painter Deborah Lambkin
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
Why no flowers for Nellie, orchid-painter extraordinaire?
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
Rolfe Judd’s light-touch makeover of a Victorian Chapel
No life for a lady along the Lambeth shore – the adventures and misadventures of Rachel Charlotte Williams Biggs
The Old Vic and the murder of Mary Ashford: the opening night of the Royal Coburg Theatre, 11 May 1818
Injury time at Blissets, The Oval, 1960–2015
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
The Thames in Textiles: Work from the Morley show
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 saucy 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 tells Vauxhall History why she’s chronicling ‘lifelines’, local places that make people feel good
Handel at Vauxhall
Slum Clearance in Southwark: A personal perspective
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’
Henry Fawcett: The Mysterious Case of Vauxhall Park’s Missing Monument
