July 2019
Brixton Market Heritage Walk
A 75 minute walk taking in the street markets, covered arcades and high street of this vibrant area. Please email marketwalks@brixtonsociety.org.uk to book places and get joining instructions
Find out more »Brixton Library Craft Wednesdays
Brixton Library is hosting Craft Wednesdays. Free sessions will include sewing, embroidery, beading, macrame and many more! Explore and learn crafts old and new. All welcome.
Find out more »Lambeth Country Show
Renew membership. Buy books and postcards. Location now confirmed as G-02 on Van Gogh Street. This should be about 200 yards from Brockwell Hall, down the slope towards the Herne Hill gate in the Charities/Market area. We will have 8 new postcards for sale as well as the Lambeth Heritage Festival Brochures for those who visit the stall. We should be much easier to find than last year so do visit the stall.
Find out more »Brixton Library Craft Wednesdays
Brixton Library is hosting Craft Wednesdays. Free sessions will include sewing, embroidery, beading, macrame and many more! Explore and learn crafts old and new. All welcome.
Find out more »Wake Up to Tai Chi
The free Tai Chi classes on Saturday mornings are already proving very popular. If you think you may be interested but are not sure if Tai Chi is for you, come to this drop-in session in the library where you can find out more about it from the qualified instructor.
Find out more »Brixton Library Craft Wednesday
Brixton Library is hosting Craft Wednesdays. Free sessions will include sewing, embroidery, beading, macrame and many more! Explore and learn crafts old and new. All welcome.
Find out more »August 2019
Brixton Society Committee Meeting
Brixton Society monthly committee meeting. All members are welcome to attend
Find out more »Brixton Market Heritage Walk
A 75 minute walk taking in the street markets, covered arcades and high street of this vibrant area. Please email marketwalks@brixtonsociety.org.uk to book places and get joining instructions
Find out more »Walk: West Side of Brixton
A local history walk led by Alan Piper. Meet 2.30pm outside Brixton Police Station.
Find out more »September 2019
Walk: Stockwell Green
A local history walk led by Bill Linskey. Meet 2.30pm outside Costcutter, 10-13 Stockwell Green. Part of the Lambeth Heritage Festival; download the full brochure here bit.ly/HeritageFestival2019
Find out more »Exhibition of the life and works of Nellie Roberts
Nellie Roberts was an Royal Horticultural Society orchid artist who lived and painted on Loughborough Road all her life. Part of the Loughborough Road project. For opening times, check the San Mei galley website.
Find out more »Talk: London’s Oldest Prison – 200 years of Brixton: the house on the hill
HMP Brixton celebrates its two hundredth anniversary this year. It has held some of the most notorious people in criminal history as well as being a pioneer of prison reform. Learn more about the prison with the author of the newly published The House on the Hill.
Find out more »Lambeth Local History Fair
Dozens of local societies, museums and other organisations will bring you talks, local tours, bookstalls, exhibitions and refreshments. Free admission.
Find out more »Talk: Markets, Megastructures and Motorways – Exploring the 1969 Brixton Plan
50 years ago, plans were drawn up to demolish the centre of Brixton and replace it with new multi-level megastructures connected to clusters of 50-storey residential towers. The plans were ambitious, and well-illustrated. In this talk from Nicholas Weedon we take a trip through this brazenly optimistic vision, hear how it came about, how it vanished, and consequences from it that remain today. There will be free light refreshments.
Find out more »Talk by Deborah Lambkin, Royal Horticultural Society orchid artist
A talk about the first Royal Horticultural Society orchid artist, Nellie Roberts, who lived and worked on Loughborough Road all her life. Part of the Loughborough Road project. Booking for the event is on Evenbrite here
Find out more »Brixton Market Heritage Walk
A 75 minute walk taking in the street markets, covered arcades and high street of this vibrant area. Please email marketwalks@brixtonsociety.org.uk to book places and get joining instructions
Find out more »Local Heroes Initiative
The Local Heroes Initiative celebrates the achievement of individuals among us, often little known, who have done outstanding work for the benefit of our community. Hear the stories of the latest group of people being put forward to be added to the Roll of Honour.
Find out more »Talk: Loughborough Road Shops
Find out about the Loughborough Road shops, the people who ran them. Exploring some of the stories of the people who lived and worked on Loughborough Road over the past 150 years. Free, but please book by email leaftra@gmail.com
Find out more »October 2019
Brixton Society Committee Meeting
Brixton Society monthly committee meeting. All members are welcome to attend
Find out more »Brixton Market Heritage Walk
A 75 minute walk taking in the street markets, covered arcades and high street of this vibrant area. Please email marketwalks@brixtonsociety.org.uk to book places and get joining instructions
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