There’s a double helping of local history from The Vauxhall Society/Vauxhall History on Monday 2 September. At 2.30pm David E. …
Time-travelling back to 1752 and Vauxhall Gardens via Virtual Reality
Vauxhall Gardens was an open-air resort and the English climate being what it is, there had to be an ‘if …
Screen siren Jane Russell and her South Lambeth adoption sensation
Between the roar of Clapham and South Lambeth Roads lies a maze of residential streets. Mostly lined with Victorian terraces, …
When Vauxhall Gardens went global but The Grove lost its groove and the bandstand missed a beat
Arles, Auckland, Baltimore, Barbados, Brussels, Canterbury (NZ) Charleston, Nashville, New York, Melbourne, Pavlovsk, Philadelphia, Stockholm, Toronto, are some of the …
Millicent Fawcett and Vauxhall Park
Millicent Fawcett’s statue by artist Gillian Wearing was unveiled in Westminster on 24 April 2018 to mark the 100th anniversary …
Monday 20 May: David Coke guides Vauxhall Gardens history walk
Join David E. Coke for ‘The Heyday of Vauxhall Gardens’
“The Great Original” – C.H. Simpson, Master of Ceremonies at the Royal Gardens Vauxhall 1797–1835
David E. Coke on C.H. Simpson, one of Vauxhall’s great historic characters.
‘Whoreterloo’: Prostitutes and Soldiers in North Lambeth in the First World War
Jerry White, Professor of History at London University, writes about the ‘heady mix of soldiers and women’ in the Waterloo area during the First World War.
Philip Astley, ringmaster of the modern Circus, commemorated at Westminster Bridge
War hero, trick-rider, entrepreneur with a flair for PR, the Lambeth-based Philip Astley was all of these things and more. …
Why no flowers for Nellie, orchid-painter extraordinaire?
It’s a shame that orchid-lovers cannot leave a bouquet on the precise spot where rests Lambeth’s peerless watercolourist and illustrator …
Light-up and lift-off at the British Interplanetary Society, Vauxhall’s ‘space station’
It may not be easy to see spacecraft from Vauxhall, but many’s the astronaut that’s been spotted on the South …
Talk: Mon 3 Sep. The Opening Night of the Old Vic and the Murder of Mary Ashford
As part of Lambeth Heritage Month, vauxhallhistory.org co-editor Naomi Clifford will be giving a talk on the subject of the …
The unstoppable Sidney Lewis, Tooting’s pre-teen Somme machine-gunner
More people, especially school students, now visit the Great War battleground-cemeteries of the French/Belgian border country than at any time …
‘Balloonomania’ and England’s first lady of flight
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.
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 practice, and have marked the event …
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 genealogists/historians Joanne Major and Sarah Murden. Not the …
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
Vauxhall Gardens drew visitors from around the world in its 18th-century prime, not least to see Roubiliac’s sensational statue. Pale …
The Old Vic and the murder of Mary Ashford: 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 English Legal History (Pen & Sword, …
Free Vauxhall Park walk: 21 April 2018
Join Polly Freeman of the Friends of Vauxhall Park on a Vauxhall Society/Vauxhall History guided walk around the Park. Saturday …
Care to help honour Lambeth’s dead of the First World War?
There’s an hour-long get-together at Lambeth Archives on Tuesday 13 March, kick-off 6pm, on what you can do to help …
Injury time at Blissets, The Oval, 1960–2015
Curiosity Corner: The first in our occasional series of notes on the odd and the by-the-way in a bustling and historic part of London. An Employee Accident Book dating back half a century has come to light in a corner of a former builder’s yard in Oval.
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Order Naomi Lourie Klein’s These Were Our Sons: Stories from Stockwell War Memorial and Ross Davies’s Vauxhall: A Little History …
Kennington, 1795: a highwayman’s dance of death on the gallows
by VauxhallHistory.org online editor Naomi Clifford On his way to the gallows at Kennington Common,[note]The spot where St Mark’s Church …
Saturday 10 February: ‘South Lambeth Road Stories’ guided walk with Sean Creighton
Historian, community activist and blogger, and former project worker in the area Sean Creighton leads South Lambeth Road Stories, a …