By Naomi Clifford Earlier this year, Vauxhall History was made aware of two previously unknown images of the unveiling of …
When John Archer took aim at injustice
Sean Creighton, biographer of John Archer, relates how over a century ago this black progressive and Labour activist battled for …
‘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.
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 …
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 …
Somme veterans’ eyewitness accounts surface in Vauxhall
Somme veterans eyewitness accounts have been donated to the Imperial War Museum by supporters of Felix Fund in memory of the former CEO, the late Holly Angharad Davies BEM, a one-time resident of Vauxhall.
Rifleman Hutson: an only son missing on the Somme and from the Stockwell War Memorial
Vauxhall students in search of a project could do worse than delve into the short life of Arthur Hutson, only son of Arthur and Annie Jane who lived at 28 Hayter Road, Brixton.
The Myer war memorial
This First World War memorial was fixed to the wall on the Myer’s Bedstead Factory in Vauxhall Walk. After being removed …
Edward Thomas
Philip Edward Thomas was born on 3 March 1878 in 10 Upper Lansdowne Road North (now 14 Lansdowne Gardens – …
Stockwell War Memorial
Stockwell War Memorial to the dead of the First World War who lived within half a mile of Stockwell Common …
St Andrew’s, Landor Road
Possibly the oldest public building in Stockwell, St Andrew’s Church is a shadow of its first incarnation, a rather attractive …
Nine Elms
William Lithgow’s Survey of the Civil War defences of London in early May 1643 mentions a fort at ‘Nyne Elmes’. …