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20th century

Stockwell War Memorial: A Centenary Exhibition

Remembering the Remembrance Day when the Stockwell Memorial was unveiled

The Space Art of Ralph Smith in Vauxhall

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

When John Archer took aim at injustice

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

Myth and Monolith – The Nine Elms Cold Store

Vauxhall Park not lost for lavender

orchid artist Deborah Lambkin at work

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

Screen siren Jane Russell and her South Lambeth adoption sensation

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

Odontoglossum Smithii

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

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

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

Injury time at Blissets, The Oval, 1960–2015

John Tradescant the Elder

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

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’

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Vauxhall History

Vauxhall History is an online archive of knowledge and images covering aspects of the history of the Vauxhall area in south London.
Vauxhall History is supported by The Vauxhall Society.

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Vauxhall History is edited by Dr Ross Davie and Naomi Clifford. Consultant editor is David E. Coke.

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