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It’s Spring. Lets Get Walking!

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A nice springtime walk is a great way to discover more about our storied manor. We here at the Observer get little time outside of our locked chamber but when allowed day release we’ve actually been to several of the walks outlined below. They’re being sponsored by the Lambeth Local History Forum and over 120 walks can be found on their website so you could actually be walking for four months. However, as most of the walks involve leaving Greater Kennington to places like, gasp, Clapham, we don’t recommend it. You’ll notice that some of these events are listed as being free. By ‘free’ they don’t actually mean the event is free. They expect a well deserved tip and their work heralded on social media. We say this as we know most of you lot would nick an ice lolly off a toddler given half a chance.

11 APRIL Saturday 2.30pm

Remembering the Chartist Rally on Kennington Common 178 Years Ago

Friends of Kennington Park

Meet Prince Consort Lodge (Trees for Cities), Kennington Park Road, SE11 4AS

Led by Marietta Crichton Stuart

Booking friends@kenningtonpark.org

18 APRIL Saturday 1pm also 20 JUNE

Bazalgette — The Visionary Engineer

Lambeth Tour Guides Association

Meet Lambeth Palace, SE1 7JU

Led by Yvonne Shorten

Cost £12

Booking bit.ly/4tqW79a

23 MAY Saturday 10.30am

Artists’ Footsteps: A guided art tour of Vauxhall and Kennington

Lambeth Tour Guides Association

Meet Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, Kennington Lane, SE11 5AW Led by Lucia van der Drift Cost £15

Booking bit.ly/4jlCoTG

We attended this last year. It’s primarily about the supper boxes and art around the Pleasure Gardens in the Victorian era, but also references contemporary spaces and artists.

25 MAY Monday 1pm

Lambeth Rocks: Music nostalgia and legendary lyrics

Lambeth Tour Guides Association

Meet Oval tube station, SE11 4PP Led by David Turnbull Cost £10 Booking LambethRockWalk.eventbrite.co.uk

4 JUNE Thursday 1pm

Unseen Vauxhall (1) – The Vanished and the Unnoticed

Lambeth Tour Guides Association

Meet Vauxhall Bus Station

Led by Geoff Fairbairn

Cost £12

Booking UnseenVauxhall4Jun.eventbrite.co.uk

For added comic value it would have been hilarious if this tour had commenced outside ‘Fire’ nightclub just after it closed on Sunday morning. That’s when the real unseen Vauxhall emerges.

14 JUNE Sunday 12noon

Pride and Protests: LGBT+ History Walk of Kennington

Lambeth Tour Guides Association

Meet Triangular traffic island, opposite Oval tubeLed by Adrian Gibson & Clare Truscott Cost £15

Booking bit.ly/4qoQsxK

Someone from the team attended this last year and it was primarily about cruising and the Pride festivals in Kennington Park in the 80’s. Very insightful.

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Guided Walks Around Greater Kennington, Some Free!

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As we hurdle through spring and into summer it’s time for us all to get out and explore our beloved patch of land and they rich history it contains.  The Lambeth Local History Forum have for years put on a range of fascinating walks all around Lambeth and we’re here to tell you about upcoming walks in Kennington/Vauxhall/Elephant/Walworth which you can attend and enjoy. And by ‘you’ we mean not ‘us’, as we are stuck in an underground warren in Kennington Cross, only seeing the light of day to get a Tesco meal deal while almost being hit by a concrete mixer on its way to Oval Village. Some of these walks are FREE (and we love free) but they do expect a tip at the end. Do tip, as we know what you lot are like.

11 May, Sunday 11am – VE day 80th: How Kennington Brought Victory.

19 May, 15 June, 3 July, 12 Aug.10 Sept. Various times – Doing the Lambeth Walk. 

7 – 9 June Lambeth Country Show. This is actually in Brockwell Park but we’re putting it in here as its great fun and you can see an aubergine dressed as Nigella Lawson and get hit in the head by an enormous owl. No need to book. 

7 June, Saturday 11am – Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens: Dance Through the Ages. 

5 July, Saturday 11:30am – Vauxhall Pride: A Walking Tour Through the LGBTQ+ Heart of London. We think this would be much more entertaining if it was taking place at 6am on a Sunday, when people are leaving the nightclubs.   Booking gapingill@yahoo.co.uk

15 July and 3 September – Various times. Unseen Vauxhall: Vanished and Unnoticed. 

So sign up and put these dates in that sparkly, jewel encrusted diary that we’ve been imploring you to get for years. As if you ever needed any more proof as to why you don’t need to leave Greater Kennington.