Lambeth Tour Guides Course

Are you interested in becoming a qualified Lambeth Tour Guide? Now is the time to consider it, as applications are open for the next course at Morley College. For information see: lambethtourguides.org/lambeth-guiding-course If you are accepted on the course and live in the Brixton area, you may be eligible for a bursary to help with […]

Heritage Walks

This Sunday, 27th, you could be running the London Marathon, but if that is too strenuous, instead enjoy a gentle, heritage walk around Stockwell Green. It starts at 2:30pm. For more information and FREE booking: bit.ly/StockwellGreen For information on all our heritage walks, walks in the local area by other groups, and walks further afield […]

Lambeth Heritage Festival

The Lambeth Heritage Festival is back in September with more exciting events than ever. Thoughout the month there will be events all around the borough celebrating our great local heritage. There are many in and around Brixton being put on by us and other groups. The Local History Fair will be on Saturday 2nd in […]

Stockwell Brewery

The latest article on our Local History page is by John Sheridan and tells the story of Stockwell Brewery. Find it here.

Local History Walks are Back!

We are expecting to be able to run a full programme of walks from the beginning of April this year. Deatils of our walks and how to book are on our Events page, here. Other walks in Lambeth may be found alongside ours in a leaflet produced by the Lambeth Local History Forum.

LAMBETH HERITAGE FESTIVAL 2021

Once again, the Lambeth Heritage Festival will run throughout Lambeth, throughout September. See the full programme here: As usual, it includes many events in, or near, Brixton; and the Brixton Society will have a stall at the Local History Fair on 4 September in St Mark’s Kennington church. After last-year’s online-only offering, this year’s Lambeth […]

Hetherington Road Tin Chapel folds

  It was sad at the end of February 2021 to see the long-awaited demise of the Hetherington Road Bible Truth Church of God corrugated iron chapel. This type of pre-pack temporary structure was all the rage in the 1890s, when the Hetherington Road chapel dates from, although according to Wikipedia’s detailed article on Tin […]

Lambeth Heritage Festival 2020

The Lambeth Heritage Festival is happening again this year throughout September. Because of Covid-19 it cannot happen live, but that is not stopping it: this year it will take place exclusively on-line. All events are free; all you need do is request log-in details. The programme is available here: love.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-heritage-festival-2020. A number of events are […]

Percy Phillips: Adventures with Electricity

The Friends of Tate Library Brixton will be welcoming local musician and writer Peter Phillips to the library to give a presentation about the life and work of his Grandfather, Percy Phillips on Thursday, 26 March 2020 from 7:00pm