Lambeth Heritage Festival: Sept 2018
A month-long event including talks, music, exhibitions, cinema, walks, children’s theatre and film workshops, covering a wide spread of interests and perspectives. There’s something for everyone.
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 21 April 2018, starts 2.30pm prompt Meet: Parco Café, Vauxhall Park Lasts about an hour All welcome, no booking required No charge, although on-the-spot contribution of £5 in aid of the Friends of Vauxhall Park […]
A Judicial Murder? Did Eliza Fenning deserve to die for the alleged poisoning of a Vauxhall couple? Wed 13 Dec at Tate South Lambeth Library
Were Vauxhall residents Orlibar and Margaret Turner really poisoned by Eliza Fenning? On Tuesday 21 March 1815, retired law stationer Orlibar Turner and his wife Margaret, who lived comfortably in Belmont Row, Vauxhall (where St George’s Wharf now stands), crossed the Thames and travelled to Chancery Lane to visit their son Robert and his pregnant […]
Monday 4 September: David Coke guides Vauxhall Gardens history walk
David Coke, co-author with Alan Borg of Vauxhall Gardens: A History, will lead ‘The Heyday of Vauxhall Gardens’, a Vauxhall Society/vauxhallhistory.org guided walk, on Monday 4 September 2017. The walk marks the traditional end of the season for this world-famous open-air attraction. Kick-off for this Lambeth Heritage walk (an hour or so long) is 2.30pm sharp, […]
Lambeth Local History Fair: 2 September 2017
Take the opportunity to discover more about your area… The Lambeth Local History Fair, which kicks off this year’s Lambeth Heritage Festival, brings together over 20 local history societies, friends groups, local history publishers and heritage organisations from across Lambeth and offers a programme of talks, book stalls, led walks, exhibitions and refreshments throughout the […]
Victorian doodles and a David Coke-led walk back to the heyday of Vauxhall Gardens
Vauxhall has a long association with booze and boozing. There’s a story that time was called on Hardicanute, king of Denmark and of England when he died in 1042 while drinking at a wedding party around here. From 1812 the Beaufoy family counterfeited wines (legally) and brewed vinegar at what is now Regents Bridge Gardens. Beefeater […]
St George’s Day Vauxhall riverside guided history walk: Sunday 23 April 2017
Free, all welcome. Leaving 10.30am sharp from Tate South Lambeth Library, 180 South Lambeth Road, London SW8 1QP. Lasts an hour or so. Your guide: Sean Creighton, local blogger, community activist, historian and publisher. This walk is a Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library event, in association with The Vauxhall Society/vauxhallhistory.com, and is part of […]
Vauxhall Park’s Henry Fawcett memorial: when Lambeth Council sent in the sledgehammers
Winter gives way to spring 1959, and as these Lambeth Council minutes of the council’s Public Services Committee show, the thoughts of Lambeth’s Borough Engineer and his fellow philistines lightly turn to obliterating one of Vauxhall’s few remaining public works of art. The documents, unearthed in the archives by local resident and former chairman of […]
Vauxhall Park: guided walk Saturday 18 March
Join Polly Freeman of the Friends of Vauxhall Park on The Vauxhall Society’s guided walk around the Park. Saturday 18 March 2017, 2pm prompt Meet: Parco Café, Vauxhall Park Duration: About an hour All welcome, no booking required Cost: On-the-spot contribution to Friends of Vauxhall Park
Talk: Mudlarking, with Ted Sandling, 8 February at Tate South Lambeth Library
Have you ever walked over a London bridge and looked down to see the tide was out on the river, and the freshly exposed beaches were dotted with little hunched figures, picking their way across the foreshore? Those figures were likely to be Thames beachcombers, called mudlarks, searching among the flints and gravel for fragments […]
Vauxhall Society Guided History Walk: Thames Foreshore, 18 January 2017
Explore Thames Foreshore with Eliott Wragg. 11am prompt at Lacks Dock slipway. No booking required. £5 to Museum of London’s Thames Discovery programme
Walk the walk, talk the talk with Vauxhallhistory.org: Tuesday 6 September
Two events on 6 September: 2.30pm, ‘The Heyday of Vauxhall Gardens’, a guided walk with David Coke, and 6.45 for 7pm, the launch of Vauxhall History, an informal get-together with speakers David Coke, Alex Werner and Naomi (Klein) Clifford.
Lambeth in sickness and health: Lambeth Pharmacy Walks
Discover three healthy local walks with a medical history theme, courtesy of a Royal Pharmaceutical Society downloadable leaflet.
