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- Keybridge House: the brutalist beauty that went down fighting 28 June 2024When 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 […]
- Remembering Vauxhall Cross in the 1990s: Filming the squeegies 1 May 2024Film 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 in wait at traffic lights and cleaned car windscreens in the hope of a tip In the summer of 1992 ‘squeegies’ –...Read […]
- 2024-2025 Lambeth Local History Walks leaflet available now 8 March 2024Lambeth 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
- Vauxhall, a Poem, from the ‘Mercure de France’ of November 1750 8 March 2024by 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, gossip, brief histories and poems, alongside articles and essays of contemporary interest, especially on the arts and humanities of France. The title ran from 1724,...Read […]
- Sir John Soane at Vauxhall Gardens 10 October 2023During 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 discovered entries relating to Vauxhall Gardens in the diaries of Sir John Soane and his wife Eliza. Although well known today for his designs...Read […]