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• Edward Maxted, the firebrand vicar from Vauxhall who was once burnt in effigy 6 July 2022
  By Ian Beckwith On 5 November 1910, the Essex market town of Great Dunmow held its traditional procession to the bonfire. Led by a brass band, the dummy, perched on a cart pulled by hooded men, moved slowly on its way to immolation. However, the effigy at the centre of the parade was not of Guy…
• 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…
• 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 –…
• 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…
• 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…