Group    From 1999 

Friends of Vauxhall Park

Established in 1999, the Friends of Vauxhall Park is a voluntary group whose aim is to protect and enhance Vauxhall Park as a place of freedom, recreation and enjoyment for all sections of the local community.

Their excellent history section has been one of the main sources for all our information.

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Friends of Vauxhall Park

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Edgar Wilson's model houses

These model houses were made for Vauxhall Park in 1949 by Edgar Wilson of Nor...

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Fawcett house - Vauxhall

We're not experts so we'll accept that the tree is a mulberry. And the tree e...

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Other Subjects

The Arts Lab

The Arts Lab

A centre for theatre, poetry, film, happenings and arts of all kinds. Originally founded by Jim Haynes at 182 Drury Lane, it was influential in inspiring many similar centres in the UK and Europe. ...

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Red Cross Garden

Red Cross Garden

Part of Octavia Hill's pioneering social housing scheme. It consists of two rows of cottages and a community hall, designed by Elijah Hoole. It was created to provide 'An open air sitting room for ...

Place, Community / Clubs, Gardens / Agriculture

3 memorials
Vauxhall Society

Vauxhall Society

A civic consultative group covering the parliamentary constituency of Vauxhall in London, which extends from the north of Waterloo to Brixton, Clapham, Stockwell and Vauxhall, as well as the neighb...

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Thorney Island Society

Thorney Island Society

A local conservation and amenity group founded in 1985 (following a campaign to save Old Westminster Library) to protect and represent the interests of residents and businesses in the 'village' of ...

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial

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Lorenzo Battinelli
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
A. O. Smith

A. O. Smith

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Lloyds Coffee House

Lloyds Coffee House

EC3, Lombard Street, 15

Site of Lloyds Coffee House, 1691 - 1785. Corporation of London

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys

Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty.  Born Salisbury Court, where his father ran a tailoring business. The house backed onto St Brides church. Highly regarded administrator of the navy. Served C...

Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous

16 memorials
Councillor Joe Vaughan

Councillor Joe Vaughan

Born Joseph James Vaughan in East London. Started work, aged 8, while still at school. As an electrician he entered into trade union politics and as a left-wing Labour supporter became a councillor...

Person, Politics & Administration

3 memorials