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Lambeth Heritage Festival, September 2015 a Month-Long Festival Led by Lambeth Archives and the Lambeth Local History Forum Lambeth Heritage Festival, September 2015 A month-long festival led by Lambeth Archives and the Lambeth Local History Forum www.lambeth.gov.uk/heritagefestival Foreword Following the success of last year’s This year’s festival will be bigger than ever second Lambeth Heritage Festival, I’m with over 60 events to choose from so delighted to invite you to take part in our the brochure has been arranged by topics programme of events for 2015. to help identify some of the key themes: The Lost Rivers of Lambeth; Some This year’s Festival explores Lambeth’s Lambeth Anniversaries; Architecture and people past and present. Preserving our Landscape; and People. I’d also like to heritage and using it to help connect welcome all of the new participants this our residents with the opportunities year, including the South London Press and challenges in Lambeth today is (celebrating their 150th anniversary), the something I’m passionate about. National Theatre, Lambeth Palace Library, the Vaults at Leake Street, Waterloo and I’m really excited about working with Thames foreshore archaeology walks. The Lambeth Local History Forum, and in Lambeth Heritage Festival showcases the particular this year Morley College, which best of Lambeth, and I look forward to celebrates its 125th anniversary and celebrating our borough with you. whose gallery is hosting our centrepiece exhibition, Water Lambeth. Earlier this year I went to see the amazing collection of Lambeth Doulton owned by our Archives, so I’m delighted to see that some of these ceramics and early photos of Lambeth from our collections will feature in this exhibition. Vauxhall was once a busy industrial area – home to pottery and ceramic factories – and at the Lambeth Doulton factory many Councillor Jane Edbrooke, women worked as artists, creating Cabinet member for Neighbourhoods, amazing art work on vases, pots and Lambeth Council urns. These women were often Lambeth residents and their work lives on not only in our collection but with collectors across the world. Cover: Banksy artwork, Waterloo Bridge, Southbank, c.2006. Reproduced by kind permission of Enzo Peccinotti 3 The Lost Rivers of Lambeth Programme of Events EXHIBITION Water Lambeth WALK Lambeth’s river frontage Thursday 3 September – Friday 23 October Thursday 3 September, 6pm and again on (closed Sundays) Wednesday 9 September, 2pm Morley Gallery, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, Meet outside Tate Britain, Millbank, SE1 7HT SW1P 4RG Lambeth is defined by water: the Thames Join Doug Black of Lambeth’s conservation between Broad Wall and Nine Elms makes and urban design team in a walk along its northern boundary, while Lambeth’s Lambeth’s Thames frontage exploring issues ‘other’ river, the Effra, flows through the of heritage conservation and the character borough from Norwood to Vauxhall like a of new developments. The walk will finish at secret watery spine. Taking these rivers as its Temple tube station. frame, this exhibition juxtaposes paintings, Booking essential, email photographs, museum objects and maps [email protected] or phone from Lambeth Archives alongside the work of 020 7926 6076. contemporary photographers to document the vanished medieval village of Water Lambeth, the riverside Doulton pottery works that closed in the 1950s and the hidden course of the Effra. For more information see www.morleycollege.ac.uk/morley_gallery WALK Vauxhall foreshore Wednesday 2 September, 10.45am Meet at Vauxhall Tube Stn, Exit 1, SE1 10,000 years of history beneath your Doulton’s pottery at Lambeth, 1906. feet! Understand the importance of the river to prehistoric man in the company of archaeologists Dr Fiona Haughey and Mike Webber. Booking essential, tickets £8, book at www.totallythames.org Tintagel House, Albert Embankment, 2004. 4 For a full calendar of events see pages 16-17 The Lost Rivers of Lambeth WALK The Falcon Brook TALK The River Effra’s Friday 11 September, 6.30pm vanishing act Meet at the corner of Cavendish and Friday 4 September, 7pm at Portico Gallery, Emmanuel Road, SW12 23a Knights Hill, West Norwood, SE27 0HS A walk led by John Rattray of the Balham (and again on) Tuesday 22 September, 7pm Society following the course of the Hydaburn, at Brunswick House, 30 Wandsworth Road, a tributary of the Falcon Brook, one of the SW8 2LG lost rivers of London. Jon Newman from Lambeth Archives uncovers the sorry story of the River Effra, once a Booking essential, email sparkling stream running the length of Lambeth [email protected] or phone but long since downgraded to underground 0207 926 6076. storm relief sewer, as he maps its course from WALK The course of the the high ground of Norwood through Herne Hill River Effra and Brixton to the Thames at Vauxhall. Sunday 27 September, 10.30am Booking essential, email Meet outside Sainsburys, 66 Westow Street, [email protected] or phone SE19 3RW 020 7926 6076. Take a brisk 7 mile walk along the course of TALK Beneath the water and the River Effra, one of Lambeth’s lost rivers, in the mud the company of Alun Thomas of the Norwood Monday 21 September, 6.45pm Society. Starting in Upper Norwood, lunching for 7.15pm start at Herne Hill (bring picnic or there are cafes) Durning Library, Kennington Lane, SE11 4HF and finishing at Oval tube station. Archaeologist Dr. Fiona Haughey has spent Booking essential, email her life uncovering the secrets of the Thames [email protected] or phone foreshore at Lambeth and shares some of its 0207 926 6076. secrets in this talk: structures and artefacts dating back many thousands of years which illustrate life from the prehistoric period. £2 suggested contribution, includes pre-talk refreshments provided by the Friends of the Durning Library. The River Effra at Norwood, ca 1890. The Thames foreshore at Vauxhall. 5 Some Lambeth Anniversaries South London Press Queen Victoria was on the throne and Viscount Palmerston, was Prime Minister. The abolition of tax on paper in 1861, a general rise in literacy and a growing interest in local affairs and politics suddenly made local newspapers attractive and affordable. In 1865 the South London Press was born. Today, 150 years on it is still an independently owned company publishing in newsprint and online and is rightly proud of its campaigning tradition of putting south Londoners at the heart of its agenda. WORKSHOP South London, the Meet the South London changing face of local news Press team at Lambeth Tuesday 15 September, 6.30pm-8pm Archives Open Day Mark Bennett Streatham Centre, Saturday 26 September Streatham Library, 63 Streatham High Road, Lambeth Archives 52 Knatchbull Road, SW16 1PN SE5 9QY. See pp. 26-27. What would you like to read in your local newspaper? This workshop will look at how local news is covered in the local press and how valuable local newspapers can be in looking at local history. The workshop will be run by Shujaul Azam, Assistant Editor and Steve Donnelly, journalist of the SLP and Fiona Price from Lambeth Archives. Booking essential, email [email protected] or phone 020 7926 6076. EXHIBITION South London Press - history day-to-day Tuesday 1 September- Wednesday 30 September South London Press, 23 Streatham High Road, SW16 1DS See history day-to-day as it was reported 100 years ago and 50 years ago in the window of the office of the South London Press. South London Press headlines, 1936. 6 For a full calendar of events see pages 16-17 Some Lambeth Anniversaries Crystal Palace, Upper Norwood, c. 1922. Crystal Palace, 1936. 7 Some Lambeth Anniversaries 50th Anniversary of the London Borough of Lambeth TALK The London boroughs at 50 Friday 18 September, 6pm Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Road London, SE1 7HT A talk by Professor Tony Travers of the LSE to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the London boroughs with a special focus on Lambeth. He will examine the role the boroughs have played in London’s life over the last century and their relevance now Mayor and Pearly King study the map of the and in the future. This is part of the famous new borough, 1965. Morley College Penny Lecture series. For more information see www.morleycollege.ac.uk/ Admission is 1p. WALK Lambeth’s Golden Jubilee Friday 11 September, 2pm Meet at the front steps of Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton Hill, SW2 1RW Join Lambeth archivist Len Reilly for a Blenheim Gardens Estate, 1973. walk marking Lambeth’s Golden Jubilee. The London Borough of Lambeth was established 50 years ago and this walk explores key sites over the last 50 years of Lambeth’s municipal past. Booking essential, email [email protected] or phone 0207 926 6076. St Paul’s Church, Clapham – interior of original 1815 church. 8 For a full calendar of events see pages 16-17 Some Lambeth Anniversaries TALK 40 years on – the history of EVENT “200 for 200” – St Paul’s the Brixton Society Clapham bicentenary service Thursday 10 September, 7pm-9pm Thursday 24 September, 7.30pm-9pm Vida Walsh Centre, 2b Saltoun Road, St Paul’s Church, Rectory Grove, Clapham, SW2 1EP SW4 0DX This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Celebrating 200 years to the day since founding of the Brixton Society. Join us for the first service here. A service with holy an evening which will include an illustrated communion presided over by the Rt Rev’d talk and an exhibition on the history of the Christopher Chessun, Bishop of Southwark, society. There will be free light refreshments. accompanied by the Rev’d Deborah Matthews, Vicar of St Paul’s Church. EVENT St Paul’s Church Clapham All are welcome. bicentenary Wednesday 16 September, 7pm-9pm St Paul’s Church, Rectory Grove, Clapham, SW4 0DX St Paul’s was built in 1815 on the site of the old parish church of Clapham and in the historic churchyard.
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