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  • ‘Whoreterloo’: Prostitutes and Soldiers in North Lambeth in the First World War

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

  • 1969: The Vauxhall Society Seven ‘resist further intrusions by industry and road traffic’

  • Archaeology at the MI6 site

  • Arthur Rackham

  • Battersea Power Station

  • Beaufoy Vinegar Factory

  • Beefeater gin

  • Belgrave Hospital for Children

  • Bernard Law Montgomery (1887-1976), 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

  • Bethlehem Royal Hospital

  • Beulah House, 274 South Lambeth Road

  • Bonnington Square

  • Brixton Market 1936: silk knickers 2½ pence a leg, streaky bacon 3½ pence per pound

  • Buses

  • Canterbury Theatre

  • Care to help honour Lambeth’s dead of the First World War?

  • Caron Almshouses

  • Charlie Chaplin

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

  • Crown Works

  • Doing the Lambeth Walk

  • Dorset Road gas engines

  • Doulton pottery

  • Dr Annie McCall

  • Edward Thomas

  • Effra River

  • Felix Slade (1788-1868)

  • Fires in Vauxhall

  • Flooding

  • Freemans

  • Garden Museum

  • Gatti’s Theatre

  • Gilbert Bayes and the Doulton House frieze

  • Guinness Trust

  • Harry Dobkin

  • Herbert Stanley Morrison

  • Horns Tavern

  • Hydraulic Power Company

  • Imperial War Museum

  • Injury time at Blissets, The Oval, 1960–2015

  • Kenneth Erskine

  • Kennington Park Blitz Tragedy

  • Lambeth Baths

  • Lambeth Bridge

  • Lambeth North Station

  • Lambeth Palace

  • Lambeth Parish Watch House

  • Lambeth pottery

  • Lambeth Road, notable inhabitants

  • Lambeth School of Art

  • Lambeth Walk

  • Lambeth Walk street market

  • Lambeth Workhouse

  • Light-up and lift-off at the British Interplanetary Society, Vauxhall’s ‘space station’

  • Lilian Mary Baylis

  • Lion Brewery

  • Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham

  • London Fire Brigade Headquarters

  • Love’s Labours Lost: the Morley College murals of Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden

  • Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, ‘Bubbles’ and the ‘Lift boy of Vauxhall’

  • Millbank Bridge

  • Munt’s piano factory

  • New Covent Garden Market

  • 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

  • Orphanages

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

  • Oval Cricket Ground

  • Peter Schmidt (1931-1980)

  • Printing

  • Rifleman Hutson: an only son missing on the Somme and from the Stockwell War Memorial

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

  • Rosemary Brown

  • Rowton House, Bondway

  • Royal National Theatre

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

  • Sir Henry Hamilton Johnston (1858-1927)

  • Slum Clearance in Southwark: A personal perspective

  • Somme veterans’ eyewitness accounts surface in Vauxhall

  • South Bank

  • Southwestern Hospital

  • St Andrew’s, Landor Road

  • St Mark’s, Kennington Oval

  • St Michael’s, Stockwell

  • St Peter’s, Vauxhall

  • St Stephen’s, South Lambeth

  • St Thomas’s Hospital

  • Stockwell Station

  • Stockwell Training College

  • Stockwell War Memorial

  • Surrey Theatre

  • Taxis in Lambeth

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

  • The Doulton fairytale tiles that survived Vauxhall’s Blitz

  • The London Eye

  • The Myer war memorial

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

  • The unstoppable Sidney Lewis, Tooting’s pre-teen Somme machine-gunner

  • The Young Vic

  • Tintagel House

  • Trams and tramways

  • Vauxhall Bridge

  • Vauxhall Motors

  • Vauxhall Station

  • Victoria Line

  • Violette Szabo

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

  • Whatever became of hit-parader Winifred Atwell’s saucy murals?

  • Why no flowers for Nellie, orchid-painter extraordinaire?

  • Why ‘missing’ Vauxhall plaque drives Vauxhall Motors fans up the wall

  • William W. Begley


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