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- 2024-2025 Lambeth Local History Walks leaflet available now 8 March 2024Lambeth Local History Forum’s annual digest of local history walks offered by local history societies, friends groups and other organisations is now available on the LLHF website. Download the leaflet
- Vauxhall, a Poem, from the ‘Mercure de France’ of November 1750 8 March 2024by David E. Coke The Mercure de France, published in Paris, was an influential monthly literary periodical, similar to The Tatler and The Spectator in England. It included court and political news, gossip, brief histories and poems, alongside articles and essays of contemporary interest, especially on the arts and humanities of France. The title ran from 1724,...Read […]
- Sir John Soane at Vauxhall Gardens 10 October 2023During research for the 2023/4 exhibition Georgian Illuminations at London’s Sir John Soane Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields (4 October 2023 to 7 January 2024), the museum’s archivist Susan Palmer FSA discovered entries relating to Vauxhall Gardens in the diaries of Sir John Soane and his wife Eliza. Although well known today for his designs...Read […]
- Veni Vidi Vauxhall: Discover trailblazing Vauxhall on seven FREE history walks – Saturday 7 October 2023 21 September 2023Lambeth Tour Guides are offering seven free walks on Saturday 7 October – one every the hour on the hour from 10am to 4pm. The walks are part of the London Local Guiding Day, which showcases the work of qualified tour guides across the capital. Vauxhall’s rich history stretches back to Bronze Age activity on...Read […]
- The True Cost of Fireworks: Sarah Ann Vaughan Williams and Caroline Bridges, two 11-year-olds 14 August 2023Every year in the UK, around Bonfire Night, about 500 children under the age of 16 end up in hospital A&E departments suffering from firework injuries. Many of these youngsters will be scarred for life, for most of the burns are to eye, head or hands. In Victorian times, Vauxhall Gardens was a favourite showground for...Read […]