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Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens by David E. Coke

Vauxhall History

18th century

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  • “Exotic Outdoor Pleasure”: Vauxhall Gardens – historians in discussion at the Foundling Museum, London, Wednesday 4 October 2019

  • ‘Princess Seraphina’ steps out at Vauxhall Gardens

  • 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

  • Albion Mill

  • Beulah House, 274 South Lambeth Road

  • Bonner’s House, Lower Marsh

  • Brunswick House

  • Carlisle House

  • Caron Almshouses

  • Claylands Road

  • Coade stone

  • Cuper’s Gardens

  • David Cox (1783-1859)

  • David Ricardo (1772-1823)

  • Doulton pottery

  • Dr Johnson and the Vauxhall Gardens Mysteries

  • Effra River

  • Executions

  • Felix Slade (1788-1868)

  • Fireworks at Vauxhall

  • Flooding

  • Francis Moore

  • Fun and Games at Vauxhall: ‘The New and Favorite Game of Mother Goose and the Golden Egg’, a board game of 1808

  • Gas

  • Handel at Vauxhall

  • Henry Maudslay

  • Hercules Road

  • Hogarth’s Garden: A concert by London Early Opera – 23 June 2023

  • How Vauxhall Gardens saved English music, 1661-1859

  • Industries in Lambeth Walk

  • James Nasmyth (1808-1890)

  • James Sowerby (1757-1822)

  • John Bacon

  • Joseph Bramah

  • Just published by The Vauxhall Society: Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens by David E. Coke

  • Kennington

  • Kennington and Stockwell in the 18th century

  • Kennington, 1795: a highwayman’s dance of death on the gallows

  • Kennington: Walter Thornbury

  • Knaves or ‘Slaves’? – the Waiters of Vauxhall Gardens

  • Lambeth

  • Lambeth Bridge

  • Lambeth Delftware

  • Lambeth Marsh

  • Lambeth Palace

  • Lambeth pottery

  • Lambeth Road, notable inhabitants

  • Lambeth Waterworks Company

  • Lambeth Wells

  • Lambeth Workhouse

  • Larkhall (Lark Hall)

  • Lower Marsh

  • Nine Elms

  • No life for a lady along the Lambeth shore – the adventures and misadventures of Rachel Charlotte Williams Biggs

  • Online talk: “By her own consent” – The Murder of Mary Ashford and Rape Culture in the Georgian Era

  • Patrick Nasmyth

  • Philip Astley, ringmaster of the modern Circus, commemorated at Westminster Bridge

  • Robert James (1705-1776)

  • Samuel Prout (1783-1852)

  • Sir John Soane at Vauxhall Gardens

  • Smallpox and fever hospitals

  • Southwestern Hospital

  • St Andrew’s, Landor Road

  • St Anne and All Saints Church, South Lambeth Road

  • St Mary’s, Lambeth

  • St Thomas’s Hospital

  • Stockwell

  • Stockwell Ghost

  • Surrey Theatre

  • Tableaux Pyrotechniques, or Picture-Models at Vauxhall Gardens

  • Talk: Mrs Meredith and the Convict laundries of Vauxhall and Stockwell – 22 May 2023

  • The Dollond family

  • The St Peter’s organ appeal: time to pull out all the stops?

  • Time-travelling back to 1752 and Vauxhall Gardens via Virtual Reality

  • Vauxhall Bridge

  • Vauxhall Gardens and St Peter’s Church

  • Vauxhall Gardens: A History – review by Andrew Saint

  • Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens

  • Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens: famous names

  • Vauxhall porcelain

  • Vauxhall, a Poem, from the ‘Mercure de France’ of November 1750

  • Vauxhall’s other pleasure gardens and a ‘Vauxhall Cross Plan’ of yesterday

  • Walcot Foundation: 350 years of helping ‘the Lambeth poor’

  • Watercolour nostalgia for Vauxhall Gardens

  • When Vauxhall Gardens went global but The Grove lost its groove and the bandstand missed a beat

  • When ‘Vauxhall’ changed gear and hit the road to make motoring history

  • William Blake

  • William Curtis (1746-1799)

  • Windmills in Lambeth Walk

  • ‘Balloonomania’ and England’s first lady of flight

  • “The Great Original” – C.H. Simpson, Master of Ceremonies at the Royal Gardens Vauxhall 1797–1835