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Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens

by David E. Coke

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John Harris, Scenes on the Road, or a Trip to Epsom and Back, Kennington Gate (1838). Courtesy of Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.

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  • Stockwell War Memorial: A Centenary Exhibition 8 March 2022
    The Friends of Stockwell War Memorial & Gardens are to hold a week-long exhibition in April to mark the centenary of the war memorial’s Grade 2 listed clock tower and to recalling its history and significance. The clock tower was erected in memory of the over 570 local men who died in the 1914-1918 War. A...Read […]
  • Phyllis Todd, much-travelled painter of a different stripe 28 January 2022
    Artist Phyllis Todd settled in the Oval in 1988 and, as she tells Vauxhall History’s Ross Davies, she found Vauxhall to have a wealth of interesting buildings. But, adds Phyllis, it is also a townscape changing so fast that she was inspired to create an artistic record. Having ‘captured’ Vauxhall’s Fentiman Road in miniature –...Read […]
  • Just published by The Vauxhall Society: Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens by David E. Coke 19 January 2022
    This month sees the publication in book form of essays on Vauxhall Gardens written by  the historian David E. Coke  and first published on vauxhallhistory.org, the history arm of The Vauxhall Society. David is co-author with Alan Borg of the monumental Vauxhall Gardens: A History (2011). One of the most painful aspects of preparing that book, David tells...Read […]
  • Remembering the Remembrance Day when the Stockwell Memorial was unveiled 14 November 2021
    By Naomi Clifford Earlier this year, Vauxhall History was made aware of two previously unknown images of the unveiling of Stockwell War Memorial on Wednesday 3 May 1922. The photos were discovered in an album kept by Charles Christopher Patrick (1904-1996), whose father, John Frederick Patrick (1869-1943) was commissioned to build Stockwell War Memorial. The...Read […]
  • The Space Art of Ralph Smith in Vauxhall 13 September 2021
    by Ken MacTaggart FBIS A unique collection of unusual art adorns the walls of the British Interplanetary Society’s headquarters in South Lambeth Road. The striking building of yellow Georgian brick near Vauxhall Park, at the corner of Langley Lane, is a familiar sight to passers-by rushing to and from Vauxhall station. But few have stepped...Read […]

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