Loughborough Road Histories

Event organiser, Meera Flynn of The London Archives

Jane Pritchard talking London scenes in Music Hall Ballets

Mark Fox talking about the bricks and mortar of Music Halls.

Image from Jason Price's talk - High versus Low culture & Mr William Archer with an fabulous moustache.

I had a great day @thelondonarchives.bsky.social yesterday talking unrideable mules🐴 (yes! really!) at the Clapham Grand, and listening to some excellent talks from @roadsw9.bsky.social @naomipaxton.bsky.social Tony Fletcher, Jane Pritchard, Wanda Robins, Mark Fox, Alison Boulton and Meera Flynn.

Nelly Roberts: Orchid Painter - The Garden Museum

Sorry you couldn’t join us. Obviously mention on Minet Huguenots on walk as well as lost orchid gardens and more. Walk for Garden Museum part of Nelly exhibition there www.gardenmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/nel...

Ooo where? Up in Notts soon

Talk: exploring changing pub culture – The White Horse and other Brixton pubs, Tues 23rd Sept 2025 Hosted by the  Loughborough Road History project, this talk looks at the fascinating history of Brixton pubs, focusing on the iconic White Horse, Loughborough Hotel and others.

🙏 @brixtonbuzz.bsky.social for the mention of talk coming up on Tuesday www.brixtonbuzz.com/2025/09/expl...

Exploring changing pub culture: The White Horse and other Brixton pubs The fascinating history of Brixton pubs, focusing on the iconic White Horse, Loughborough Hotel and others

Exploring Changing Pub Culture, fascinating history of north Brixton pubs
Talk part of @vangoghhouse.co.uk #FestivalofEncounters
📅 23 Sept.
⏰ 7-9pm
📍Brixton Jamm, 261 Brixton Road, SW9 6LH

Free, please book here
pubhistorytalk.eventbrite.co.uk

A futuristic model of Lambeth with sweeping clean lines - the future as seen in the past of Waterloo.

The new free exhibition at Lambeth Archives looks at the ambitious world of Ted Hollamby's Department of Architecture and Planning, 1965-1980. Modernism, the future and architectural merit, open until the 26th.

Pleasure, thoroughly enjoyed it. Good to shine a bit of extra light on George Le Brunn’s music hall composing career, and his life in and around Brixton. Looking forward to more delving in BMHS archive in future too and not just Le Brunn’s song sheet collection

Another great review of Re:trace my project with Basil McDonald and Longfield Hall. Basil has done a fantastic job reshooting Brian Bloice’s 1967 original photos. Glad you enjoyed it @jasoncobb.bsky.social
🙏 for the post.

Glad you enjoyed Loughborough Road History’s collaboration with Basil McDonald.

RE:TRACE – photographic exhibition revisits a walk from Hubert Grove in Brixton to the Minet Library, 1967 to 2025 A photographic  exhibition at the Longfield Hall in Camberwell retraces a walk from Hubert Grove in Brixton to the Minet Library. The first set of images were taken by local historian Brian Bloice …

RE:TRACE exhibition, a Loughborough Road History project with photographer Basil MCDonald and Longfield Hall featured in @brixtonbuzz.bsky.social 🙏
www.brixtonbuzz.com/2025/09/retr...

200 years of the Waterloo Commissioner's Classics The flurry of church building in the 1820’s left Lambeth with the four "Waterloo Churches". Nicholas Weedon looks at how they are faring.

St Matthew’s Brixton, one of Lambeth’s “Waterloo” churches which are just over 200 years’ old. Hear their story from architect Nicholas Weedon in a Brixton Society talk on Thursday 11 September at 6.15pm. FREE but booking essential: bit.ly/StMatthewsTalk

The end of the article mentions the setting up of @brixtonsociety.bsky.social. Their 50th anniversary exhibition has just ended charting their ingoing work. Catalogue of the exhibition here charity.ebay.co.uk/charity/i/Br...

It came into my inbox this morning which prompted me to search socials. Great read.

So back in June, local artist Phoebe Kaniewska attended my Hidden River Effra walk as part of her research for her upcoming exhibition all about the river. Now I’m very excited to announce I will be running a special edition of the walk where I will discuss the myths and stories that have 1/2

Architect's drawing of Clapham Manor nursery garden

Architect's drawing of housing for elderly complex

🚨Today's blog post is on the new exhibition 'Building "Homes for Tomorrow": Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980' at @lambetharchives.bsky.social. The images below (a nursery school and a housing scheme for elderly people) capture the era's ideals.
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Building ‘Homes for Tomorrow’: Lambeth’s Council Housing, 1965 to 1980 The exhibition uses original architect’s models, archival documents and images and oral history to explain the planning context and to explore and celebrate Hollamby’s architectural legacy for Lambeth...

1/ I was pleased to attend the launch in Lambeth Archives of this interesting exhibition on "Building ‘Homes for Tomorrow’: Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980". It will be described fully in a guest post by its curator Christiane Felber on Tuesday.
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I was there too. Maybe we met. Fascinating exhibition. Christiane’s research is so important in telling the more depth story of Hollamby’s developments in Lambeth, the work of his team and local resistance. Fantastic that new materials will be deposited at Lambeth Archives

Re:trace going up. Opening at Longfield Hall SE5 tomorrow.

Poster photography exhibition Re:trace Hubert Grove to Longfield. A 1967 walk from Clapham north to Minet Estate revisited in 2025. Image of Longfield. The left side of the hall an image taken in 1967 the right side of the hall image taken on 2025. Together they show the complete circular hall building with conical roof. Background of the poster in orange.

Re:trace exhibition
📅 9-28 September
🕑 10am-6pm daily
📍Longfield Hall
50 Knatchbull Road SE5

Basil McDonald has retraced the route and reshot images taken by Brian Bloice in 1967 on a walk from Brian’s home on Hubert Grove SW9 to Lambeth Archives at Minet Library, opposite Longfield Hall.

Lambeth Local History Fair in full swing at Clapham Library. Limbering up for my talk.

I’ll be talking about Four-legged performers in Brixton and Beyond at 3.30pm.

Choice of lots of free walks and talks throughout the day and people on hand on stalls to chat to about all aspects of Lambeth’s history and heritage.

Cover of the book Under Fire by Naomi Clifford, showing a young woman in 1940s service uniform and cap in front of a destroyed building.

the peace of the morning with the hell of the night before. During Sept and Oct half the revenues from Under Fire will go to Ukraine & Gaza medical charities.
*Please share widely*
Links to buying platforms are on my website: www.naomiclifford.com/where-to-buy...

Where to buy Under Fire: The Blitz Diaries of a Volunteer Ambulance Driver - Naomi Clifford Available in paperback and ebook. Don’t forget – you can order the paperback through your favourite bricks and mortar bookshop.

Under Fire: The Blitz Diaries of a Volunteer Ambulance Driver - to mark the 85th anniversary of the #Blitz I will be donating 50% of sales revenues to medical charities for #Ukraine and #Gaza. Available in paperback or ebook. www.naomiclifford.com/where-to-buy...

The Lambeth Heritage Festival begins tomorrow, 1st September, and continues throughout the month. Read or download the programme brochure from bit.ly/LambethHeritage2025 or use the QR code below.
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Coming up #LambethHeritageFestival month.

3.30pm Sat. 6th Sept. as part of Local History Fair day I’ll be at Clapham Library talking Four-legged performers, just one of them on brochure cover.

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Join Van Gogh House London between 13 September and 5 October for the Festival of ENCOUNTERS! This is a free-to-attend series of events in an array of venues across the northern end of Brixton.

🌐 Programme:
festivalofencounters.com

🎟️ Book Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/festival-...

Frank James Burgoyne and his wife Mary Anne. Frank was the chief librarian for Lambeth 1887-1913. They lived in at Carnegie library @hernehillsociety.bsky.social

Unusual memorial to William Amwell died 1881
Monument erected by the engine drivers and firemen of the London and South Western Railway Co as their last mark of respect

Visit to #LambethCemetery yesterday doing a bit of prep for the 14 Sept. guided walk Artists, entertainers and campaigners peopleoflambeth.eventbrite.co.uk

Spotted a few other interesting memorials perhaps for future walks 🧵

More time to visit or revisit
@brixtonsociety.bsky.social 50th anniversary exhibition at Brixton Library. Extended to 31 August 🎂🎉