‘Must-have book for MPs’ Evening Standard, 23 July 2010 Who was the hired killer that gave Vauxhall its name and who was the King who forced a teenage widow to marry the brute? Did you know that Vauxhall gave the world the first open-air pop festival, mass audience for art and music, plus celebrity PR, royal endorsement and portion control? Long-time Vauxhall resident and TVS committee member Ross Davies’s book Vauxhall, A Little History, published by Nine Elms Press,...
An account of the unlikely friendship between two people of widely different social backgrounds at the turn of the 20th century: Father William Brown, the long-serving priest of St. Anne’s Catholic Church on Harleyford Road, Vauxhall and Pearl Craigie, an American playwright. The book documents Father Brown’s tireless work in building his long dreamed-of church from the ground up in one of London’s poorest districts. He touched the lives of countless families and schoolchildren of the parish – all...
