A chance to learn more about the Vauxhall Gardens, an 18th-century hub of art, music and socialising Historians Danielle Thom and David Coke, Vauxhall History’s consultant editor, discuss the history of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens with BBC TV Antiques Roadshow regular Lars Tharp – from decorous entertainments of art and musical display, to the racier activities of […]
Talk: Mon 3 Sep. The Opening Night of the Old Vic and the Murder of Mary Ashford
As part of Lambeth Heritage Month, vauxhallhistory.org co-editor Naomi Clifford will be giving a talk on the subject of the opening night of the Royal Coburg Theatre (now known as the Old Vic). It’s a story that takes the audience far and wide: from the Surrey side of the Thames to a field in a […]
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 […]
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 […]
