The Vauxhall Society sends you all, members and non-members alike, season’s greetings. Please remember that becoming a member of TVS gives you an arena to voice your opinions about Vauxhall’s rapidly changing landscape, excellent local networking and regular news updates. Join online here -> www.vauxhallcivicsociety.org.uk/join
The Northern Line Extension project has been shunted into a siding, where it now blocks developers’ drive to canyonise the Battersea-Vauxhall riverside (VNEB) with skyscraper apartment blocks. Banks have repossessed the key Battersea Power Station site (and NLE terminus) from REO/Transport Holdings. This Irish development consortium was the cheerleader for NLE and said that the whole VNEB development hinged upon the new Tube line’s being built. Now Richard De Cani, TfL’s Director for Strategy and Development, has called...
An invitation from Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library to attend a talk given by Ferrous Auger about the history of Brunswick House. Brunswick House Lassco is a Georgian townhouse in the middle of the gyratory system in Vauxhall. In the eighteenth century Brunswick House (originally Belmont House) stood in five and half acres of parkland with its own jetty and a handsome frontage. Now some two and half centuries later it casts a rueful glance at five lanes...
Community groups are coming together to question Lambeth’s apparently-unquestioning commitment to NLE. The widespread discontent expressed at TVS’s AGM, the group has led to the formation of TAG, or Transport Action group, which will also question developers’ interpretations of the studies upon which NLE is based, and highlight the alternatives. Meanwhile, on Monday 12 August Lloyds Bank and an Irish government agency, NAMA, go to court to secure control of the Battersea Power Station site, the terminus of NLE....
The Morley Accordion orchestra has recorded a live CD, Progession, to help pay the orchestra’s way to the huge triennial international accordion orchestra competition at Innsbruck in 2013. MAO’s free Christmas concert is at 1 pm on 13 December at Emma Cons Hall, Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7HT (Lambeth North Tube) . CD is available from www.morleyaccordions.org.uk
Vauxhall Memories AN INVITATION TO MEMBERS OF THE VAUXHALL SOCIETY PLUS SPOUSE, PARTNER OR FRIEND If you fancy a bit of foot-tapping to get your Saturday night off to lively start this Saturday, 10 December, then pop along to a TVS’s Vauxhall Memories do, 5pm-7pm, at the Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre.
‘Cotchels, queer gear and hairy balls’ were on the menu at our latest Vauxhall Memories get-together at Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre. ‘Queer gear’ explained the Covent Garden Market Authority’s Helen Evans is what market traders call the exotic fruit she brought with her such as rambutan or ‘hairy balls’ to the trade. ‘Vauxhall Memories’ is a Vauxhall Society oral history project which, as at the forthcoming Christmas feast on 10 December, films Vauxhall veterans swopping food memories and hearing...
Reaction to the Libraries Commission report (read it here: http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/moderngov/ieListDocuments.aspx?MId=7646&x=) is now coming in, and could be summarised as ‘could have been worse, but still far too vague’. The Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library tell us they’re relieved that their and other smaller libraries are not for the chop, or not yet. On the other hand, the report isn’t clear about how much money the TSL will have to work with, given the ‘massive’ development planned for its...
A reminder that the Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library have invited to fellow campaigners and local interest groups – whatever their cause - to an informal presentation by Alasdair Mackenzie from the Parliamentary Outreach Team. He will explain how campaigners – as groups or as individuals – can use Parliament to further their objectives. After a brief introduction on how Parliament operates, he will focus on those aspects most relevant to campaigning organisations – contacting MPs and Lords,...
