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. Gabriel grew up in the streets that were bulldozed to make way for Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in the 1970s’ ‘slum clearance’. It was another world, Gabriel was there and nobody is better able to tell...
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 start consultation, promised for the summer, but confirmation of the date will be the starting – gun for the Save Vauxhall Bus Station group to go public with an open meeting. Three TVS members recently...
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 & Company who died in the 1914-18 conflict. Among the fatalities was James William Adams, a Rifleman with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who died at Ypres on 30 July 1915, aged only 20. It...
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 Peck) according to responsibilities. Thus, for example, Vauxhall’s Jack Hopkins would receive the basic £10,597 as one of the three councillors representing Oval Ward, plus a £28,518 ‘Special Responsibility Allowance’ as ‘Cabinet’ Member for Safer...
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. You can have a hard copy of all the documents for a mere £850.There are more than 75 of them, detailed and highly complex, and will have taken many highly paid “experts” many months, if...
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 begins his 12-month countdown to the polls with a rocket from The Friends of Vauxhall Park (FOVP) after the park was closed for the Bank Holiday weekend while police investigate what they say is a...
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 and all year round, and so extends to dates beyond the listings in the LLHF Heritage Walks brochure. The extra dates are publicized on the VX1 website, vauxhallone.co.uk and on the TVS site, www.vauxhallcivicsociety.org.uk. TVS...
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 Olympics. The orchestra then does on to represent the UK at the World Music Festival competition in Innsbruck, Austria, on 11 May. 7.30pm, 4 May 2013, £7 / £5 concessions Emma Cons Hall, Morley College,...
The Ethical Property Company is offering to rent fully-serviced accommodation to charities (and other people they approve of) in ‘The Foundry’, a development at 142 Vauxhall Street, due to open in early 2014. Indeed, The Foundry is already 60 per cent let, given that EPC says it can offer units for up to six people at around £1,000 a month, inclusive of everything but business rates. Building starts any day now, for completion in April next year. EPC’s keen...
