This month sees the publication in book form of essays on Vauxhall Gardens written by the historian David E. Coke …
The Space Art of Ralph Smith in Vauxhall
by Ken MacTaggart FBIS A unique collection of unusual art adorns the walls of the British Interplanetary Society’s headquarters in …
Caret Press to publish David E. Coke’s Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens in October 2021
A collection of six papers on Vauxhall Gardens by David E. Coke, a leading expert on London’s Georgian pleasure gardens …
Henry Evans Evanion, ‘The Royal Conjuror’ of Kennington
A recent discovery among a batch of printed ephemera from Victorian Vauxhall by Vauxhall History co-editor and co-author of Vauxhall Gardens: A …
Claudia Jones’s Vauxhall years and the genesis of the West Indian Gazette
In the late 1950s Vauxhall was home to Claudia Jones, one of the most important figures in black British history …
The Prisoners’ Friend: The Work of the Indefatigable Mrs Meredith in south London
Naomi Clifford, with research assistance from Paul T. Klein, explores the life of Susanna Meredith, a 19th-century pioneer in the …
Who was the mystery ‘Lady of Colour’ who sang and gave a pianoforte recital at Vauxhall Gardens in 1822?
Vauxhall Gardens, summer 1822. To great acclaim ‘Madame Georgina’, a singer and classical pianist from Calcutta, accompanies herself and performs …
When ‘Vauxhall’ changed gear and hit the road to make motoring history
Why do all Russian railway stations carry the name of an English middle-class car? Eric Dymock explains all.
Myth and Monolith – The Nine Elms Cold Store
Andrew Rogers on the short and chequered history of the Nine Elms Cold Store.
Vauxhall Park not lost for lavender
The opening of a lavender garden on the former bowling green in 2004 is one of the cheerier and certainly …
Lambeth Palace Library move recalls marriage scandals of past times
Dating back to 1610, Lambeth Palace Library can claim to be the oldest public library in the country. It may …
When Vauxhall Gardens went global but The Grove lost its groove and the bandstand missed a beat
Arles, Auckland, Baltimore, Barbados, Brussels, Canterbury (NZ) Charleston, Nashville, New York, Melbourne, Pavlovsk, Philadelphia, Stockholm, Toronto, are some of the …
Millicent Fawcett and Vauxhall Park
Millicent Fawcett’s statue by artist Gillian Wearing was unveiled in Westminster on 24 April 2018 to mark the 100th anniversary …
“The Great Original” – C.H. Simpson, Master of Ceremonies at the Royal Gardens Vauxhall 1797–1835
David E. Coke on C.H. Simpson, one of Vauxhall’s great historic characters.
Light-up and lift-off at the British Interplanetary Society, Vauxhall’s ‘space station’
It may not be easy to see spacecraft from Vauxhall, but many’s the astronaut that’s been spotted on the South …
‘Balloonomania’ and England’s first lady of flight
Letitia Sage was an actress who on 29 June 1785 at St George’s Fields, as Sharon Wright writes, became the first Englishwoman to fly.
A litter-bin now marks the spot in Vauxhall Gardens where once stood Roubiliac’s life-size statue of Handel: Free Vauxhall Gardens guided history walk, 21 May 2018
Vauxhall Gardens drew visitors from around the world in its 18th-century prime, not least to see Roubiliac’s sensational statue. Pale …
The 1836 ‘Royal Vauxhall Balloon’ ascent that set an eight-decade world distance record for manned flight
by David E. Coke Amongst the many extraordinary facts about 19th century London, one stands out as almost unbelievable – …
‘Princess Seraphina’ steps out at Vauxhall Gardens
Vauxhall, or ‘Voho’ in estate-agent’s patter (the ‘Soho’ of the south bank), attracts gay people both as a place to …
Why ‘missing’ Vauxhall plaque drives Vauxhall Motors fans up the wall
Hands up anybody who knows where to find the plaque that commemorates the spot in Vauxhall where Vauxhall Motors started? …
Walcot Foundation: 350 years of helping ‘the Lambeth poor’
The Walcot Foundation gives away an average of £1.8 million a year ‘for the relief of the Lambeth poor’. …
Not even Good Queen Bess could barge up Brixton Hill from Vauxhall for a date with Sir Walter Raleigh – River Effra: London’s Secret Spine by Jon Newman
Jon Newman’s River Effra, South London’s Secret Spine is lavishly-illustrated, deeply-researched and, above all, grippingly-readable – a landmark work, the first detailed and comprehensive account of the Effra.
1877: when Old Father Thames turned on his children – again
A brief history of local inundation.
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.