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Latest posts on Vauxhall History

• Save the dates! Upcoming history walks in Vauxhall and Kennington 11 March 2026
  The Lambeth Local History Walks leaflet has got some fantastic offerings from member societies for 2026-2027. We’ve picked out some highlights relating to Vauxhall, Kennington and the surrounding area. Don’t forget to book your place. Some links will become active nearer the time of the event. Walks are free unless shown. Download the leaflet for...Read […]
• 2026-2027 Local History Walks leaflet available now 28 February 2026
  Lambeth Local History Forum’s annual digest of local history walks offered by local history societies, friends groups and other organisations is now available to download from the Lambeth Local History Forum website. DOWNLOAD THE LEAFLET NOW
• Was a terrace of houses in Vauxhall Walk the model for scenes in Wilkie Collins’ 1862 novel ‘No Name’? 16 February 2026
  The network of dismal streets stretching over the surrounding neighbourhood contains a population for the most part of the poorer order. In the thoroughfares where shops abound, the sordid straggle with poverty shows itself unreservedly on the filthy pavement; gathers its forces through the week; and, strengthening to a tumult on Saturday night, sees the...Read […]
• The meteoric rise and fall of Vauxhall’s Detective Chief Inspector Nathaniel Druscovich 28 October 2024
  To coincide with the publication of her historical true-crime novel 13 Park Lane, Vauxhall History co-editor Naomi Clifford explores the life of one of the characters, who lived in South Lambeth Road On 29 December 1882, at 64 South Lambeth Road, Nathaniel Thomas John Druscovich, formerly a detective chief inspector in the Metropolitan Police Force...Read […]
• Keybridge House: the brutalist beauty that went down fighting 28 June 2024
  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 replacement company eventually got the job done but it took them 18 months and the client received a £12 million bill...Read […]