19th century

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

Why no flowers for Nellie, orchid-painter extraordinaire?

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

Rolfe Judd’s light-touch makeover of a Victorian Chapel

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

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

Saturday 10 February: ‘South Lambeth Road Stories’ guided walk with Sean Creighton

The 1836 ‘Royal Vauxhall Balloon’ ascent that set an eight-decade world distance record for manned flight

The St Peter’s organ appeal: time to pull out all the stops?

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