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Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens by David E. Coke

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  • ‘Princess Seraphina’ steps out at Vauxhall Gardens

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

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

  • 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

  • Barrett’s Brewery and Bottling Factory

  • Caroun House, Vauxhall

  • Claudia Jones’s Vauxhall years and the genesis of the West Indian Gazette

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

  • Fires in Vauxhall

  • Fireworks at Vauxhall

  • Gilbert Bayes and the Doulton House frieze

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

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

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

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

  • Keybridge House: the brutalist beauty that went down fighting

  • Lambeth Palace Library move recalls marriage scandals of past times

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

  • Millicent Fawcett and Vauxhall Park

  • Myth and Monolith – The Nine Elms Cold Store

  • 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

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

  • Phyllis Todd, much-travelled painter of a different stripe

  • Plants in Vauxhall

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

  • Sir John Soane at Vauxhall Gardens

  • Somme veterans’ eyewitness accounts surface in Vauxhall

  • Southbank Mosaics: Public Realm improvements and social mission

  • Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company

  • St Anne and All Saints Church, South Lambeth Road

  • St Peter’s, Vauxhall

  • Stockwell

  • Tableaux Pyrotechniques, or Picture-Models at Vauxhall Gardens

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

  • Taxis in Lambeth

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

  • The Boundaries of Anglo-Saxon Vauxhall and Stockwell

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

  • The Myer war memorial

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

  • The Space Art of Ralph Smith in Vauxhall

  • Tintagel House

  • Trams and tramways

  • Vauxhall

  • Vauxhall Bridge

  • Vauxhall Gardens and St Peter’s Church

  • Vauxhall Motors

  • Vauxhall Park not lost for lavender

  • Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens: famous names

  • Vauxhall porcelain

  • Vauxhall Station

  • Vauxhall Water Company

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • “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