Contents
Local Online People's History pages:
· Arthur Rackham: racist illustrator
· Bomb damage, Stoddart House (1944)
· Brief history of Kennington Office Cleaners Co-operative
· Brixton Road, North Brixton
· Brunswick House
· Charles Ledger
· Claudia Jones
· Election hustings, Kennington Common
· Executions on Kennington Common
· Fun in the sun
· How James Holland traced his parents' grave
· Information request: Isabella Higgins
· John Hanna
· Kennington heroes of the Blitz
· Kennington Park and Palestine
· Kennington Park shelter: deaths 1940
· London and the slave trade
· Manuel Incra Mamani
· Manuel Incra Mamani: full portrait
· Matoaka
· People's history book stall
· Southern Sewer Network
· St. Marks Church
· Stoddart House bombing: details of deaths
· Stockwell Bus Garage
· Swan pub - how it used to look
· Vauxhall Bridge (around 1817)
· Worm eat worm
Offsite links:
· People's history of Kennington Park
· Lambeth Council Archives department has set up a web-site for the purchase of images from its collection. See www.lambethlandmark.com
Vauxhall Society: offsite links
The Vauxhall Society has some excellent photos and other materials on their site. Although this is not People's History, it can help us gain a glimpse of the lives of ordinary local people during the last two centuries.
· Beaufoy Vinegar Factory The Comfort Inn hotel on South Lambeth Road was originally an office building for Sarsons Vinegar, which took over from the Beaufoy Vinegar Factory. Travis Perkins and a luxury housing development now occupy the site of the factory.
· Chaplin A brief biography of Charlie Chaplin which gives information on his career, but does not say much about his work as defender of human rights.
· Chartists
· Doing the Lambeth Walk Well known song from 1937.
· Duchy of Cornwall Prince Charles, heir to the throne, owns large parts of our area.
· Elias Ashmole Ashmole Estate was named after this early resident.
· Executions Another history of the Kennington Common gallows. The Local Online complete list of those known to have been executed is at Executions on Kennington Common.
· Effra River A large section of this now invisible river is now part of South London's sewer system - yet another product of imperial wealth in the Victorian era.
· Floods Until capital was available to build the Thames Embankment, inner South London was continually subject to floods.
· Industry in Lambeth Manufacturing has declined even more in London than in the UK as a whole. The current versions of these products are now often bought from countries where labour is cheaper.
· Kennington
· Lambeth Road A former resident of this road was William Bligh, famous for the Bounty expedition, for which he was commissioned as part of a venture to provide cheap food for slaves on British-owned plantations in the Caribbean.
· Nine Elms Station Britain's wealth allowed it to become a pioneer in the development of railways. Nine Elms Station soon became obsolete as the new railway was extended to Waterloo Station. The homes of ordinary people were demolished in the process.
· Northern Line
· Oval Cricket Ground Although now a long way from the county of Surrey, this remains the home of Surrey County Cricket Club. Cricket remains popular in parts of the world that were formerly under the control of the British Empire: Australia, Sri Lanka, West Indies, India, Pakistan, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
· Scientists in Lambeth: John Rennie South London, and bridges connecting it to North London, which developed much earlier, owes its existence to the fruits of empire. John Rennie (1761-1821) took part in the early stages of construction of bridges, and the Thames Embankment which protected the low-lying areas of South London from flooding.
· Stanley Described here as an 'African' (!) explorer, Henry Morton Stanley helped pave the way for the Scramble for Africa by European colonists in the late 1800s.
· Stane Street
Did you know the Clapham Road is a relic of the occupation of Britain by the Roman Empire, which started in 43 CE? Stane Street is the original name for the roads now called Kennington Park Road, Clapham Road and Clapham High Street. It was originally built to connect London and Chichester.
· Stockwell
· Henry Tate (1819-1899) Sugar has played a key part in the history of the United Kingdom. The industry, initially developed with the help of the Atlantic slave trade, made Henry Tate rich enough that he could afford to found local libraries and the nearby Tate Gallery. Tate and Lyle sugar remains a popular brand today.
· Tradescants Britain's superiority as a naval power helped it to organise the global re-distribution of plants, providing wealth for Europe and creating the basis of the Third World's dependence on supplying cash crops, such as tea, coffee, tobacco and rubber for use in developing countries. John Tradescant, who lived near the current location of Tradescant Road, was a pioneer in the collection and distribution of 'exotic' plants.
· Vauxhall Firsts
Annotations by Max Boucher.
We plan to enlarge this section. Can you help obtain more writings, photos and other contributions?
There is more information at:
Local Online People's History project.
11 Jul 2005