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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

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