Vauxhall History

Lambeth Palace Library move recalls marriage scandals of past times

Following in Nellie Roberts’ brushstrokes – the work of orchid painter Deborah Lambkin

“Exotic Outdoor Pleasure”: Vauxhall Gardens – historians in discussion at the Foundling Museum, London, Wednesday 4 October 2019

Walk and Talk: Vauxhall Gardens and Samuel Johnson – two events on 2 September

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

Monday 20 May: David Coke guides Vauxhall Gardens history walk

“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’

Talk: Mon 3 Sep. The Opening Night of the Old Vic and the Murder of Mary Ashford

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

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

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

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