Come along on ‘My Vauxhall’, writer and Vauxhall Society member Gabriel Gbadamosi’s lunchtime guided history walk, 12.30-1.30pm on Friday 31 May. It’s free, because it’s funded by Vauxhall One. You do have to book though (see below). Do that, and you can ask your guide Gabriel killer questions, such as ‘How much of your new novel Vauxhall is autobiographical?’ and ‘Who’s that in The Vauxhall Society’s snapshot, and where and when was it taken?’ Vauxhall the novel came out...
May’s free guided lunchtime history walk, funded by Vauxhall One, is on Friday 31 May, 12.30-1.30pm. The walk is entitled My Vauxhall and is led by The Vauxhall Society’s Gabriel Gbadamosi, a poet and playwright whose semi-autobiographical novel, Vauxhall, came out on 1 May....
More than 30 Vauxhall Society members and others have now come together to fight plans by Lambeth Labour councillors to demolish Vauxhall Bus Station and scatter the bus stops around the Vauxhall Cross gyratory. There is till no firm date for Lambeth Council to...
A First World War memorial has been returned to Vauxhall after a 30-year absence and will be rededicated in a special ceremony on Tuesday 21 May 2013 at 11am. The marble and bronze plaque commemorates the sacrifice of the thirteen employees of Horatio Myer...
The allowances paid to Lambeth councillors in 2012-13 are to be published shortly. On 22 May the council will be asked to adopt the current scheme, under which councillors are paid £10,597 a year basic, with up to £40,617 (for the Council Leader, Lib...
So you think you live in a democracy? Look again at Transport for London’s Transport and Works Act Order (TWAO) application to the Secretary of State for Transport for permission to build and operate ‘NLE’ Northern Line Extension that is be pushed through Vauxhall....
Vauxhall councillor Jack Hopkins, Lambeth’s ‘Cabinet Member’ for Public Protection, no doubt has one eye on UKIP’s gains in this month’s council elections elsewhere and another on what happen to the main parties’ vote when Lambeth’s council elections are held next May. Cllr Hopkins...
The 2013 Vauxhall One (VX1) free guided history walks are proving very popular. VX1 is the Business Improvement District organization covering Vauxhall riverside and The Oval. VX1 funds the walks and The Vauxhall Society (TVS) arranges them. The 2013 walks programme is both monthly...
An accordion orchestra? Yes, right here. Morley Accordion Orchestra is premiering a new concert work commissioned by Morley College, Jason Carr’s Europa, at a Morley College concert on Saturday 4 May. The Orchestra will also play Ian Watson’s piece ’2012′ inspired by the London...
