BRIXTON MARKET HERITAGE WALKS LAMBETH LOCAL HISTORY FORUM 2019–20 Brixton Society Walks are organised by members and associates of Local History A 75-minute walk taking in the street markets, covered the Lambeth Local History Forum, which promotes an arcades and high street of this vibrant area. Starts interest in the heritage of Lambeth. 2.30pm from Brixton Station Road. Cost £3 per person For more information and a full list of member societies (includes a copy of the book of the walk). visit www.lambethlocalhistoryforum.org.uk WALKS More information: www.brixtonsociety.org.uk CONTACTS Booking: [email protected] in South London BRIXTON WINDMILL HERITAGE WALKS Lambeth Archives Herne Hill Society Minet Library Friends of Windmill Gardens 52 Knatchbull Road, SE5 9QY hernehillsociety.org.uk 020 7926 6076 Norwood Society A 1½ hour walk with a Blue Badge Guide, covering 19th lambeth.gov.uk norwoodshistory@btinternet. and 20th century developments near Brixton Windmill Balham Society com including prison, waterworks, trams and telegraphy. John Rattray norwoodsociety.co.uk Arrive 12.50 for 1pm start at Windmill Gardens (west end 020 8675 4854 Peckham Society of Blenheim Gardens SW2 5EU). [email protected] peckhamsociety.org.uk Cost £6, concessions £4, children free. Ends back at Brixton Society South London Botanical Brixton Windmill for tearoom, toilets and opportunity Alan Piper Institute 020 7207 0347 slbi.org.uk for free tours (last at 4.40pm). All proceeds support the www.brixtonsociety.org.uk Windmill. Streatham Society Clapham Society Shea Richardson HENRY TATE GARDENS, STREATHAM Alyson Wilson shea.richardson@homecall. 020 7622 6360 co.uk claphamsociety.com Streatham Society streathamsociety.org.uk Friends of Brockwell Park Tooting History Group View Tate’s Grade II* listed mansion Park Hill (exterior friendsofbrockwellpark.org tootinghistory.org.uk only) and explore the historic garden with its Grade II Friends of Kennington Vauxhall Society/Vauxhall listed garden features, including the dramatic Pulhamite Park History grotto, Victorian castle folly, lake and temple. kenningtonpark.org [email protected] Meet at the lodge gates, Henry Tate Mews, Streatham Friends of West Norwood vauxhallhistory.org vauxhallcivicsociety.org.uk Common North Side, SW16 3HA. Cemetery [email protected] Waterloo and Southbank FREE. No booking required. fownc.org Heritage Society WEST NORWOOD CEMETERY TOURS Friends of Windmill musicdirector@ Gardens stjohnswaterloo.org Friends of West Norwood Cemetery brixtonwindmill.org Guided tours usually last 1½ – 2 hours on the first Cover credits: Clockwise from top left: Prince Charles and Nelson Mandela at Brixton Recreation Centre on 12 July 1996*; Charles Frederick Sunday of the month. Highlights include the monuments Parker (died 21 March 1918) named on Stockwell War Memorial, with his of Sir Henry Doulton, Mrs Beeton, Baron de Reuter, Sir family; Doulton pottery painter, mural in Lambeth Walk, photographed in 2010 by London Mural Preservation Society; Brixton Flour Mills, Brixton Henry Tate and Dr William Marsden. Hill, from an article in The Daily Graphic, 1913*; Hester Lynch Piozzi Starts from the Cemetery Main Gate, Norwood Road, (née Salusbury aka Mrs Thrale), painted in 1785 or 1786 by an unknown artist, credit: National Portrait Gallery, London, reproduced under a CC SE27 9JU at 2.30pm (Apr–Oct) or 11am (Nov–Mar). BY-NC-ND licence; bust of Charles Haddon Spurgeon at West Norwood Tours are free but donations are welcome. Cemetery. Leaflet design: [email protected] * Images reproduced by kind permission of London Borough of Lambeth. Check details with the relevant society as they may Unless otherwise indicated, walks usually last 1½–2 LAMBETH LOCAL HISTORY FORUM change due to circumstances beyond our control. hours and are free but donations are welcome. www.lambethlocalhistoryforum.org.uk APRIL 2019 Sunday 19 May Sunday 9 June Sunday 7 July Sunday 18 August Weekend 21 & 22 September Spring History Walk in Brockwell Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk West Norwood Cemetery Tour West Side of Brixton Open House London Saturday 6 April Park 12.50pm See overleaf for details 2.30pm See overleaf for details 2.30pm Outside Police Station, 367 openhouselondon.org.uk Dawn Chorus 2pm Clocktower by Brockwell Hall, Brixton Road, SW9 7DD 5am Café on the Rye, SE15 3UA SE24 9BJ. Led by Peter Bradley Sunday 9 June Tuesday 9 July Led by Alan Piper Saturday 21 September Led by Peter Frost Friends of Brockwell Park Balham High Road Around Central Clapham Brixton Society Herne Hill Heritage Trail: Central Peckham Society 2.30pm Balham High Road, opposite 6.30pm Clapham Common tube, 2.30pm Herne Hill Station, Sunday 7 April Sunday 19 May Ritherdon Road, SW17 7AJ SW4 7AJ. Free but please book via Wednesday 21 August SE24 0JW West Norwood Cemetery Tour Loughborough Quarter Led by John Rattray [email protected]. Tree Walk, Streatham Park Estate Led by Robert Holden 2.30pm See overleaf for details 2.30pm Outside Police Station, Balham Society Led by Alyson Wilson 2.30pm Jct Ullathorne &Thrale Herne Hill Society 367 Brixton Road, SW9 7DD Clapham Society Roads, SW16 1NY Saturday 13 April Led by Alan Piper Brixton Society Wednesday 12 June Led by Roy Vickery Wednesday 25 September Brixton Market Heritage Walk Wonderful Weeds, Roupell Park Saturday 13 July South London Botanical Institute Clapham in World War II 2.30pm See overleaf for details Monday 20 May Estate Brixton Market Heritage Walk 2.30pm Clapham Common tube, The Heyday of Vauxhall Gardens 7pm Friends (Quaker) Meeting 2.30pm See overleaf for details SEPTEMBER SW4 7AJ Saturday 13 April 2.30pm Starbucks, Vauxhall Station, House, Redlands Way, SW2 3LU Free but please book via Sunday 14 July Lambeth Heritage Festival Month Anniversary of the 1848 Chartist SW8 1SP. £5 donation. Led by Ron Vickery llhf.org.uk [email protected] Rally on Kennington Common Led by David E. Coke South London Botanical Institute Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk Led by Derrick Johnson 2.30pm Prince Consort Lodge Vauxhall Society/Vauxhall History 12.50pm See overleaf for details Sunday 1 September Clapham Society (Trees for Cities), Kennington Park Saturday 15 June Stockwell Green Sunday 26 May Lost Hospitals of SE1 Weekend 20 & 21 July Saturday 28 September Road, SE11 4AS Lambeth Country Show 2.30pm Costcutter, 10–13 Stockwell Led by Marietta Crichton Stuart Henry Tate Gardens, Streatham 2pm St John’s Church, SE1 8TY, by Green, SW9 9JF Herne Hill Heritage Trail: South lambethcountryshow.co.uk Friends of Kennington Park 2pm & 3pm See overleaf for details the memorial; ends at the Imperial Led by Bill Linskey 2.30pm All Saints’ Church, Lovelace War Museum, SE1 6HZ. Free. Road entrance, SE21 8JY Saturday 20 July Brixton Society Sunday 14 April Monday 27 May Tickets from waterloofestival.com Led by Robert Holden Herbal Heritage: Forgotten Uses of Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk Balham Hill Led by Elaine Andrews (Morley Sunday 1 September Herne Hill Society Wild Plants 12.50pm See overleaf for details 2.30pm Clapham South tube, College) West Norwood Cemetery Tour 2.30pm Waterloo Millenium Green, SW12 9DU Waterloo and Southbank Heritage 2.30pm See overleaf for details OCTOBER Sunday 28 April Bayliss Road entrance, SE1 7AA Led by John Rattray Society Dawn Chorus Bird Walk in Led by Roy Vickery Black History Month Balham Society Monday 2 September blackhistorymonth.org.uk Brockwell Park Sunday 16 June South London Botanical Institute The Heyday of Vauxhall Gardens Details to be confirmed at Wednesday 29 May Rush Common and Effra Farm Sunday 21 July 2.30pm Starbucks, Vauxhall Station, Sunday 6 October www.brockwellpark.com The Totterdown Estate: Pioneering 2.30pm Brixton Tate Library, Brixton SW8 1SP. £5 donation West Norwood Cemetery Tour Led by RSPB Tooting Oval, SW2 1JQ Stanley Halls to the Reservoirs & Back Led by David E. Coke 2.30pm See overleaf for details Friends of Brockwell Park 2pm Edward VII statue, Tooting Led by Alan Piper Vauxhall Society/Vauxhall History Broadway tube station, SW17 0SU 2.30pm Stanley Halls, 12 South MAY Brixton Society Saturday 12 October Led by Janet Smith Norwood Hill, SE25 6AB Sunday 8 September Brixton Market Heritage Walk Sunday 5 May £5 for non-members Wednesday 19 June Led by Stephen Oxford Henry Tate Gardens, Streatham 2.30pm See overleaf for details West Norwood Cemetery Tour Tooting History Group Peckham Rye Park to One Tree Norwood Society 2pm & 3pm See overleaf for details 2.30pm See overleaf for details Hill Walk AUGUST Sunday 13 October JUNE 6.30pm Clockhouse pub, jct Barry Saturday 14 September Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk Saturday 11 May Sunday 2 June Road & Peckham Rye, Sunday 4 August Brixton Market Heritage Walk 12.50pm See overleaf for details Brixton Market Heritage Walk West Norwood Cemetery Tour SE22 9QA West Norwood Cemetery Tour 2.30pm See overleaf for details 2.30pm See overleaf for details Led by Peter Frost 2.30pm See overleaf for details Sunday 13 October 2.30pm See overleaf for details Saturday 14 September Peckham Society Autumn Glories of Brockwell Park Sunday 12 May Monday 3 June Saturday 10 August Herne Hill Heritage Trail: North 2pm Clocktower by Brockwell Hall, Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk Growth of a Victorian Suburb JULY Brixton Market Heritage Walk 2.30pm Herne Hill Velodrome, SE24 9BJ Burbage Road entrance, 12.50pm See overleaf for details 6.30pm Clapham South tube, SW12 2.30pm See overleaf for details Friends of Brockwell Park Saturday 6 July SE24 9HE 9DU. Free but please book via Sunday 12 May Beating The Bounds of Tooting Sunday 11 August Led by Robert Holden [email protected] NOVEMBER 2019 to Friends of One Tree Hill Nature Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk Herne Hill Society Led by Timothy Walker Graveney Parish: Part 1 Reserve Walk 12.50pm See overleaf for details MARCH 2020 Clapham Society 10am Amen Corner, jct Mitcham & 2pm St Augustine’s Church, SE23 Sunday 15 September Southcroft Roads, SW17 9JE Sunday 11 August Sundays, 11am 3LF.