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KENNINGTON, OVAL & VAUXHALL HISTORY
The Black Prince – Kennington Palace - Geoffrey Chaucer – Lambeth Palace - Sir Thomas Moore – preaching and political agitation on Kennington Common – Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens - Astley’s Theatre and circus – William Blake - Georgian housing – the Duchy of Cornwall – Chartism – the Chartist Demonstration of 1848 – the Horns – Oval cricket - Kennington Park - Doulton’s Pottery – Mary Seacole’s Benefit Concert - Lambeth School of Art – George Tinworth - Alford House – Frank Briant - Lady Margaret Hall Settlement – Beaufoy Institute - Vauxhall Cars – Charlie Chaplin - the LCC estates –– Doing the Lambeth Walk – Passport to Pimlico - Ethelred Estate – the Battle of St Agnes Place.
These are just a few of the fascinating elements of the history of the Kennington, Oval & Vauxhall area.
There is a keen interest in the area about its history and heritage. Many community groups came into existence to campaign against threats to the built and open space environment which local people value. inc. the Friends of Parks and Open Spaces and Friends of Durning Library.
KOV Area Local History/Heritage Network
Following the success of the
local history events in the 2005 Lambeth Riverside Festival, during
the planning of the 2006 Lambeth Riverside Festival RCDT and
Vauxhall St Peter’s Heritage Centre considered that it would be
useful to suggest establishing a KOV Area Local History/Heritage
network. There were a number of projects underway on aspects of the
local history and heritage. There were a growing number of
development proposals which would affect the built environment
heritage and the local Conservation Areas, especially
The aim was to meet to share information about what local organisations were doing and the challenges to local heritage. They suggested that there could be:
· reduction in duplication
· sharing of information
· co-operation to improve each other’s activities
· a richer understanding of local history
· improved knowledge and use of the material that has been collected over the years by Vauxhall St Peter’s Heritage Centre
· improve the ability of local groups to representations they make on planning development proposals
The first meeting was held
on
To join the Network email: info@rcdt.org.
The
Bibliography
Jim Nicolson of Vauxhall Society and the Vauxhall St Peter’s Heritage Centre, produced for the Network a bibliography on local history which is accessible via the link in the right hand column.
History and the 2006 Festival
Several history events were organised by different groups for the July 2006 Lambeth Riverside Festival - see the Festival Report accessible via the link on the right hand column. The Network organised the ‘Valuing Our Past’ Local History Fair for the last Saturday. The brochure for this Fair is accessible via the link in right hand column.
John Tradescant’s Rest
As part of the Festival Parabola Trust organised an exhibition about the Tradescants and associated walks from where their house had been to the Museum which is housed in the former St Mary’s Parish where John Tradescant was buried. The Trust published ‘John Tradescant’s Rest’, a Historical Walk Guide by Jon Newman (Lambeth Archives) with funding from RCDT. Details of this publication are accessible through the link in the right hand column. The publication can be purchased from RCDT (£3.30p inc p&p): info@rcdt.org
Abolition of the Slave Trade Anniversary 2007
The Network agreed to explore sponsoring an event about local aspects of the involvement in slavery and the campaign against the slave trade. A discussion paper ‘Slave Trade and Abolition’ can be accessed via the link in the right hand column. An event is likely to be organised for later in the year.
William Blake Anniversary 2007
The Network agreed that it
would try and contribute to the anniversary of the visionary poet
and artist William Blake in 2007. Blake lived in Hercules Buildings,
where
Area’s Local History on the Web
There are several websites containing notes and images on local history
Lambeth Archives: www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/LeisureCulture/Libraries/Archives.htm
Lambeth Landmark (site with Archive material on it): http://landmark.lambeth.gov.uk/default.asp
Local On-Line Project: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/localonline/index.htm
Vauxhall Society: www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk
Sean Creighton: www.seancreighton.com
Google searching on particular aspects of local history, whether people, organisations, buildings, streets, etc will also show up material on local history
Page created April 2007