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Tableaux Pyrotechniques, or Picture-Models at Vauxhall Gardens
By the 1850s, the management of the world-famous Vauxhall Gardens was looking for a big, new attraction, and they did not come larger than the 1851 ‘Picture-Model’ of the Temple of Concord near the...
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Talk: Mrs Meredith and the Convict laundries of Vauxhall and Stockwell – 22...
As part of Lambeth’s annual Readers and Writers Festival, Vauxhall History’s co-editor Naomi Clifford will be discussing her recently published book Out of the Shadows, a collection of essays on 18th...
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Hogarth’s Garden: A concert by London Early Opera – 23 June 2023
Another Vauxhall Gardens-linked album of classical music is on the way from director Bridget Cunningham’s London Early Opera. Fans can get a taste of the album-to-be on Friday 23 June 2023 at the...
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The True Cost of Fireworks: Sarah Ann Vaughan Williams and Caroline Bridges,...
Every 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...
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Veni Vidi Vauxhall: Discover trailblazing Vauxhall on seven FREE history...
Lambeth 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...
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Sir John Soane at Vauxhall Gardens
During 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...
View ArticleVauxhall, a Poem, from the ‘Mercure de France’ of November 1750
by 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,...
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2024-2025 Lambeth Local History Walks leaflet available now
Lambeth 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
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Remembering Vauxhall Cross in the 1990s: Filming the squeegies
Film maker PAUL BERNAYS tells Vauxhall History about his documentary film ‘Squeegies’, made for BBC2’s 40 Minutes documentary series, which showed a year in the life of the now long-gone crews who lay...
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Keybridge House: the brutalist beauty that went down fighting
When the wrecking ball goes in, it’s the building that meant to crumble. But in 2016, South Lambeth landmark Keybridge House put up such a fight it was the demolition firm that collapsed. A...
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