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The Vauxhall Society

Civic consultative group covering the London parliamentary constituency of Vauxhall

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by The Vauxhall Society
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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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  • Sir John Soane at Vauxhall Gardens 10 October 2023
    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 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 […]
  • Veni Vidi Vauxhall: Discover trailblazing Vauxhall on seven FREE history walks – Saturday 7 October 2023 21 September 2023
    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 of qualified tour guides across the capital. Vauxhall’s rich history stretches back to Bronze Age activity on...Read […]
  • The True Cost of Fireworks: Sarah Ann Vaughan Williams and Caroline Bridges, two 11-year-olds 14 August 2023
    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 life, for most of the burns are to eye, head or hands. In Victorian times, Vauxhall Gardens was a favourite showground for...Read […]
  • Hogarth’s Garden: A concert by London Early Opera – 23 June 2023 20 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 LEO’s ‘Hogarth’s Garden’ concert at St Nicholas Church in Chiswick. The evening brings together LEO’s new singers with narrator and Hogarth fan...Read […]
  • Talk: Mrs Meredith and the Convict laundries of Vauxhall and Stockwell – 22 May 2023 13 May 2023
    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 and 19th-century women. The talk focuses on the work of Susanna Meredith, who established steam laundries in Vauxhall and Stockwell to employ women former...Read […]

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