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Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens by David E. Coke

Vauxhall History

19th century

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  • ‘A Night in a London Workhouse’ (song)

  • 1877: when Old Father Thames turned on his children – again

  • 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

  • Albert Embankment

  • Albion Mill

  • All Saint’s, Lower Marsh

  • Andrew Nicholl

  • Arthur Rackham

  • Arthur Sullivan

  • Astley’s Amphitheatre

  • Balloons

  • Barrett’s Brewery and Bottling Factory

  • Beaufoy Vinegar Factory

  • Beefeater gin

  • Bethlehem Royal Hospital

  • Beulah House, 274 South Lambeth Road

  • Bonner’s House, Lower Marsh

  • Bonnington Square

  • Bower Saloon

  • Breweries: Hammerton and Barrett’s

  • Brown Institute for Animals

  • Brunswick House

  • Candles

  • Canterbury Theatre

  • Carlisle House

  • Caron Almshouses

  • Caroun House, Vauxhall

  • Cement works at Nine Elms

  • Charles Green (1785-1870)

  • Charles Pritchard

  • Charlie Chaplin

  • Chartists

  • Cholera

  • Church Street

  • Clapham Through Time: Alyson Wilson and Claire Fry’s Clapham then and now

  • Claylands Road

  • Coade stone

  • Crown Baths

  • Crown Works

  • Cuper’s Gardens

  • David Cox (1783-1859)

  • David Ricardo (1772-1823)

  • Dorset Road gas engines

  • Doulton pottery

  • Dr Annie McCall

  • Duchy of Cornwall

  • Edward Maxted, the firebrand vicar from Vauxhall who was once burnt in effigy

  • Effra River

  • Executions

  • Felix Slade (1788-1868)

  • Fires in Vauxhall

  • Flooding

  • Florence Nightingale

  • Florence Nightingale Times obituary

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

  • Gas

  • Gatti’s Theatre

  • George Parker Bidder

  • Guinness Trust

  • Hablot Knight Browne

  • Hackford Road

  • Henry Evans Evanion, ‘The Royal Conjuror’ of Kennington

  • Henry Fauntleroy (1785-1824): Hanged for forgery

  • Henry Fawcett and Millicent Garrett

  • Henry Fawcett: The Mysterious Case of Vauxhall Park’s Missing Monument

  • Henry Maudslay

  • Henry Tate (1819-1899)

  • Horns Tavern

  • How advertising pioneer Thomas Bish revived Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens

  • How Vauxhall Gardens saved English music, 1661-1859

  • Hydraulic Power Company

  • Imperial War Museum

  • Industries in Lambeth Walk

  • Industry

  • Inquest on boy flogged at Lambeth Workhouse

  • James Nasmyth (1808-1890)

  • John Mackay’s birthday visit to Vauxhall Gardens on 31 July 1837

  • John Selby Watson

  • Joseph Bramah

  • Juba – William Henry Lane (1825-1852?)

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

  • Kennington

  • Kennington Park

  • Kennington Station

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

  • Kennington: Walter Thornbury

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

  • Lambeth

  • Lambeth Baths

  • Lambeth Bridge

  • Lambeth High Street

  • Lambeth North Station

  • Lambeth Palace

  • Lambeth Parish Watch House

  • Lambeth pottery

  • Lambeth Ragged School

  • Lambeth Road, notable inhabitants

  • Lambeth School of Art

  • Lambeth Walk

  • Lambeth Walk street market

  • Lambeth Waterworks Company

  • Lambeth Wells

  • Lambeth Workhouse

  • Lewis Nockalls Cottingham (1787-1847)

  • Lion Brewery

  • Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham

  • London Fire Brigade Headquarters

  • London Pneumatic Despatch Company

  • Louise Michel, anarchist heroine of the Paris Commune, tours the Lambeth workhouse

  • Lower Marsh

  • Millbank Penitentiary

  • Millicent Fawcett and Vauxhall Park

  • Munt’s piano factory

  • Nine Elms

  • Nine Elms Station

  • Nine Elms: The National Railway Museum now leaving…

  • Northern Line

  • 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

  • Old Vic

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

  • Orphanages

  • Oval brick a brac? The Richardsons of Vauxhall and Brunswick Wharf

  • Oval Cricket Ground

  • Patrick Nasmyth

  • Peabody

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

  • Prince Consort Lodge, Kennington

  • Printing

  • Richborne Terrace

  • Robert Cocking: rise and fatal fall of a pioneer parachutist

  • Rolfe Judd’s light-touch makeover of a Victorian Chapel

  • Rowton House, Bondway

  • Samuel Prout (1783-1852)

  • Saturday 10 February: ‘South Lambeth Road Stories’ guided walk with Sean Creighton

  • Sir Ernest George (1839-1922)

  • Sir Henry Hamilton Johnston (1858-1927)

  • Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)

  • Sir John Soane at Vauxhall Gardens

  • Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen (1843-1902)

  • Slum Clearance in Southwark: A personal perspective

  • Smallpox and fever hospitals

  • Society for Waifs and Strays

  • South Bank

  • Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company

  • Southwestern Hospital

  • St Andrew’s, Landor Road

  • St Anne and All Saints Church, South Lambeth Road

  • St Mark’s, Kennington Oval

  • St Mary’s, Lambeth

  • St Michael’s, Stockwell

  • St Peter’s, Vauxhall

  • St Stephen’s, South Lambeth

  • St Thomas’s Hospital

  • Stockwell

  • Stockwell Station

  • Stockwell Training College

  • Surrey Theatre

  • Surrey Zoological Gardens

  • Tableaux Pyrotechniques, or Picture-Models at Vauxhall Gardens

  • Talk: Mon 3 Sep. The Opening Night of the Old Vic and the Murder of Mary Ashford

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

  • The 1836 ‘Royal Vauxhall Balloon’ ascent that set an eight-decade world distance record for manned flight

  • The Dollond family

  • The Great Western

  • The Man in the White Cotton Suit: William Roupell, MP, Treachery and Fraud in Queen Victoria’s Lambeth

  • The meteoric rise and fall of Vauxhall’s Detective Chief Inspector Nathaniel Druscovich

  • The Old Vic and the murder of Mary Ashford: the opening night of the Royal Coburg Theatre, 11 May 1818

  • The Prisoners’ Friend: The Work of the Indefatigable Mrs Meredith in south London

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

  • The Tate South Lambeth Library, a much-loved gift that councillors want to grab

  • The True Cost of Fireworks: Sarah Ann Vaughan Williams and Caroline Bridges, two 11-year-olds

  • Thomas Hughes

  • Thomas Neill Cream

  • Vauxhall

  • Vauxhall Bridge

  • Vauxhall Gardens and St Peter’s Church

  • Vauxhall Gardens: A History – review by Andrew Saint

  • Vauxhall Park not lost for lavender

  • Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens

  • Vauxhall Station

  • Vauxhall Water Company

  • Vauxhall, Dunedin, New Zealand

  • Vauxhall’s Doulton & Co – from sewer pipes to art pottery

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

  • Vincent van Gogh in Stockwell

  • W. H. Smith

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

  • Watercolour nostalgia for Vauxhall Gardens

  • When John Archer took aim at injustice

  • 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

  • Who was the mystery ‘Lady of Colour’ who sang and gave a pianoforte recital at Vauxhall Gardens in 1822?

  • Why no flowers for Nelly Roberts, orchid-painter extraordinaire?

  • William Blake

  • William Chester Minor

  • William James (1771-1837)

  • Windmills in Lambeth Walk

  • “Our quest does not appear to take us to very fashionable regions”: Sherlock Holmes and Lambeth

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