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Local groups combine to question developers’ grip and Lambeth’s lack of it

8 December 2011

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....

Morley Accordion orchestra records live fund-raising CD

6 December 2011

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

6 December 2011

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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’

5 December 2011

‘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...

Libraries Campaign: time for some answers?

2 December 2011

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...

Find out how to use Parliament in your campaign – Mon 12 Dec

2 December 2011

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,...

Brixton’s unknown slaves

25 November 2011

There were perhaps a million people living in ‘England’ in 1086, compared with maybe 52 million today. Of that one million in 1086, about one in ten was a slave. In an article for The Vauxhall Society’s online local history archive, the historian Keith Bailey pulls together the tantalisingly little that we know about slavery in ‘Brixton’ – that is, ‘the Brixton Hundred’, in 1086 an administrative unit of NE Surrey.

An orchard for Vauxhall Park?

23 November 2011

What chance would an orchard have in today’s Vauxhall Park? We may have a chance to find out. The Friends of Vauxhall Park, a TVS affiliate, are talking to the London Orchard Project about the planting a dozen fruit trees – local apple, as well as greengage, plum, damson and pear – on the ‘mound’, the former dog toilet in the Lawn Lane side of the playground. The project needs volunteers to plant and/or water. Call 07901 855887 Friends...

Reminder: VNEB redevelopments exhibition and information

21 November 2011

Thursday 24 (3-8pm) and Friday 25 November (8am-6pm). Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea (VNEB) redevelopments exhibition and information Market Towers1 Nine Elms LaneLondon SW8 5NQ

Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library: how to use Parliament to further your aims

20 November 2011

Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library has invited fellow campaigners and local interest groups – whatever their cause to an informal presentation at Tate South Lambeth Library at which Alasdair Mackenzie from the Parliamentary Outreach Team will explain how campaigners – as groups or as individuals – can use Parliament to further their objectives. The session will take place on Monday 12 December at 7pm. After a brief introduction on how Parliament operates, he will focus on those aspects...

Grant money available for small-scale green projects and organisations

18 November 2011

Dr Iain Boulton, Parks Projects Officer (Communities & Education) at Lambeth Council has flagged up a new grant source, known as Grimple’s Green Grants, which was launched in August 2010 by The Green Insurance Company, which encourages green behaviour on our roads through green insurance policies. The Green Grants gives them an opportunity to extend this into communities across the UK. They are looking for green projects across the UK that they can fund and support, and have up...

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