The Vauxhall Society

Coming home… a Vauxhall war memorial

TVS — Sat, 19 May 2012 07:16:09 +0000

The Vauxhall Society is looking forward to bringing home to Vauxhall a First World War memorial in time for the centenary of the war’s outbreak in August 1914. The memorial is to 13 employees of Horatio Myer & Co, a bed manufacturer in Vauxhall Walk between 1876 and 1982. The building is now home to the Graphite Square and Walker Books. In 1982, Horatio Myer & Co moved to Huntingdon, taking with them the memorial plaque that used to stand on the Vauxhall Walk frontage to the left of the main entrance arch. The Huntingdon factory has now changed hands, and Horatio Myer’s grandsons Rodney and Jonathan have now contacted The Vauxhall Society offering to return the memorial plaque and to pay the costs of reinstating it. TVS’s Naomi Klein is now talking to the current owners of the Vauxhall Walk premises and is busy researching the lives of the 12 Myers men. You can read her research on our Myer memorial page in our History section. Anyone who knows anything about the individuals named on the memorial or how to contact the descendants or families of the men is asked to email vauxhallcs@gmail.com. In 1914 the Vauxhall Walk factory employed 200 workers.

Events in May

TVS — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:19:56 +0000

A reminder that the first Vauxhall Music Trail is on Sunday 13 May... other events of interest in May are listed below. Visit our Events diary and the TVS Heritage Walks page for further dates.

Sunday 13 May 2012. 11am The Vauxhall Music Trail (about 2 hrs)

Meet at Starbucks, opposite Vauxhall Bus and Tube Stations

Led by Aly Mir

£3 donation to funds welcomed

A Vauxhall Society heritage walk

Sunday 13 May 2012, 2.30pm Old Southwark Meet at the foot of London Bridge (corner of Duke Street Hill and Borough High Street, outside Evans’ Cycles) for walk led by Alan Piper, highlighting Charles Dickens’ local connections. The Lambethans Society Monday 14 May 2012 Friends of Kennington Park AGM Monday 14 May 2012, 5pm for 5.30 History of the Wellcome Trust The Dining Room The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum 1 Lambeth High Street London SE1 7JN Tuesday 29 May 2012, 2.30pm All About Vauxhall Gardens (1½ hours) Meet at Starbucks, opposite Vauxhall Tube and Bus Stations Led by David Coke £3 donation to funds welcomed A Vauxhall Society heritage walk

Invitation – Tue 29 May: Lambeth Architecture 1914-1939

TVS — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:08:26 +0000

As part of the Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival Lambeth Archives invite you to the launch of their new book Lambeth Architecture 1914-1939 at the Prince of Wales, Brixton (opposite the Ritzy Cinema and Lambeth Town Hall - entrance is next to Barclays Bank). Historian and town planner Edmund Bird is heritage advisor to the Mayor of London's Design for London. This, his second collaboration with Lambeth Archives, covers Lambeth Architecture from 1914-1939, a period of great development in the borough. From Gilbert Scott's iconic red telephone box to the opulent interior of the Streatham Hill Theatre or the lavish art deco interior featured in Herne Hill and the sweeping, curving ocean-liner style balconies of Oaklands estate on Poynders Road, style was changing as the showmanship of the Edwardian era gave way to a more restrained form of classically inspired architecture. Lambeth Architecture 1914-1939 Tuesday 29 May, 6.30 for 7pm Prince of Wales 467-469 Brixton Road London SW9 8HH For more information or to book tickets for Lambeth Libraries events please call 020 7926 1075 or email readersandwriters@lambeth.gov.uk. Visit the Lambeth website for more Readers and Writers events

Get a dose of history at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society talk: 14 May

TVS — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:11:04 +0000

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society on Lambeth High Street has announced a FREE evening lecture on the History of the Wellcome on Monday 14 May 2012. Professor Tilli Tansey will talk about the Wellcome Trust – its history and work. Tilli Tansey is Professor of the History of Modern Medical Sciences (funded by the Wellcome Trust) at Queen Mary College, University of London and co-author of a book on Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. To be on the guest list, or for more information, call 020 7572 2210 or email museum@rpharms.com; or find the Wellcome on Facebook Monday 14 May 2012, refreshments from 5pm, talk at 5.30pm The Dining Room The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum 1 Lambeth High Street London

Lambeth Readers and Writers – a call for local writers to come forward!

admin — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:14:36 +0000

The Friends of Tate South Lambeth invite you to an evening at the library showcasing the work of local authors on Wednesday 9 May at 7pm - and they're also calling for you to step forward if you are one yourself. Lambeth's reader development officer, Tim O'Dell, is keen to hear from ALL writers in our area, whether they are into children's books, non-fiction, thrillers - whatever. Contact TO'Dell@lambeth.gov.uk. From children’s writers and illustrators to non-fiction and the thrills of the novel, we’ll have it all for one night only. Come along and share your writing; or just come along and enjoy the writing of Vauxhall and Stockwell people. All welcome. Please book on 020 7926 1075 or email readersandwriters@lambeth.gov.uk www.lambeth.gov.uk/readersandwriters Wednesday 9 May 2012, 7pm Tate South Lambeth Library 180 South Lambeth Road London SW8 1QP

Andrew Saint reviews Vauxhall Gardens: A History

admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:12:10 +0000

David Coke and Alan Borg's monumental work on Vauxhall Gardens has been reviewed by Andrew Saint for The Vauxhall Society. David Coke has curated The Triumph of Pleasure: Vauxhall Gardens 1729 – 1786, an exhibition opening at the Foundling Museum on 11 May. Drawing from the collections of major museums and galleries across the country, the exhibition will display works by Hogarth, Canaletto, Hayman, Rowlandson and Gainsborough. One of the last surviving supper box paintings will be on display alongside objects associated with the Gardens and the Foundling Hospital. The exhibition will also be the first time François Roubiliac’s three terracotta portrait busts of William Hogarth, George Frideric Handel and Jonathan Tyers have been seen together. In addition, David Coke will be giving a talk - ‘The delight of all persons of reputation and taste’ – an introduction to Vauxhall Gardens 1661-1859 - at the Durning Library on Monday 21 May, 7pm. Read the review here.

How Vauxhall Gardens saved English music

TVS — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:30:16 +0000

David Coke, co-author of Vauxhall Gardens: A History, has contributed an article on the Gardens’ influence on English music to the TVS Local History Archive.

David is curating a Vauxhall Gardens exhibition between 11 May and 9 September at the Foundling Museum, and will lead a Vauxhall Society guided Vauxhall Gardens walk on Tuesday, 29 May.

Friends of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens AGM

TVS — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:19:45 +0000

	Friends of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens’ Annual General Meeting will be on Thursday 26 April 2012, 6.30pm, at the Carmelita Centre Vauxhall on the corner of Vauxhall Walk. The Carmelita Centre 41 Vauxhall Walk London SE11 5JT More info: steven@friendsofvauxhallpleasuregardens.org.uk

Free concert – Couperin at St Peter’s: Friday 6 April, 6.30pm

TVS — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:31:05 +0000

London Early Opera perform François Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres as part of a meditative service for Good Friday at St Peter’s Vauxhall, 310 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY.

Admission free

Three latin vocal settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet composed by François Couperin for the liturgies of Holy Week in 1714 – said to symbolise the loneliness of Christ abandoned by the disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane and having been betrayed by Judas.

Each verse is preceded by a melisma on a letter of the Hebrew text.

Charlotte Stephenson and Jassy Husk (sopranos)
Bridget Cunningham (harpsichord/director)
Dan Moult (organ)

More information at here.

April: upcoming events

TVS — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:58:18 +0000

Please see our Events page for further dates.

The Vauxhall Society heritage walks are listed at www.vauxhallcivicsociety.org.uk/walk

APRIL 2012
Sunday 8 April (Easter Sunday) 2012, 2.30pm
Sutton House
Originally a Tudor country house, but later swallowed up by the growth of London and has seen many changes. Admission free for National Trust members, otherwise £3; closes at 4-30 pm. 2 & 4 Homerton High Street, Hackney E9 6JQ.
The Lambethans Society

Wednesday 11 April 2012, 6.30 for 7.00pm
KOV Forum meeting
If you’ve something you want on the agenda, please let Frances know on forumkov@gmail.com or 07506 072 307
Montgomery Hall
58 Kennington Oval
London SE11 5SW

Wednesday 11 April 2012
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe outlines his vision for London policing
Entrance is first come first served.
Lambeth College Sixth Form Centre
45 Clapham Common South Side
London SW4 9BL
Doors open at 6.30pm; session is 7-8pm. No parking.

Thursday 12 April 2012, 10am-12noon
Public meeting on the future of libraries at the Tate South Lambeth Library
Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library
180 South Lambeth Road
London SW8 1QP

Monday 16 April 2012
Friends of Durning Library AGM
Details to be posted on website:
www.durninglibraryfriends.org.uk/events

Thursday 19 April 2012, 7-9pm
South Bank Forum
With MPs Kate Hoey and Simon Hughes and local councillors
Agenda: Meet your new Met Police borough commanders; countdown to Jubilee Gardens; new public toilets for South Bank; Councillor Steve Reed, Leader, Lambeth Council on “What exactly is the ‘co-operative council’?”
Coin Street neighbourhood centre
108 Stamford Street
London SE1 9NH

Saturday 21 April 2012, 11am-1.30pm
Kennington Association Bazaar
St Anselms Church Hall
Kennington Cross
Books, bric a brac, and clothes at bargain prices. Tombola. Saleable items wanted, please bring to the hall on Friday 20 at 6 – 8pm or
Saturday morning 9-10am.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 6.30pm
Friends of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens AGM
The Carmelita Centre
41 Vauxhall Walk
London SE11 5JT
More info: steven@friendsofvauxhallpleasuregardens.org.uk