Pleasures & Pastimes - a guided walk round the site of Vauxhall Pleasure gardens

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Cost: £10 Neighbourhood: Vauxhall and Waterloo Category:
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Join Lambeth Tour Guides for a walk which explores Vauxhall's historic connections with outdoor formal entertainment: a place where, for almost 200 years, Londoners could dance the night away.

tightrope-walking, fireworks, balloon,  wine and dine with a live orchestra. Musical connections with Handel, Mozart and half of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership.

Learn about the origins of a distinctive South London form of perambulation, and a nod to the area's most famous son, , Charlie Chaplin.

The legacy of continues with today's outdoor pastimes - film and karaoke, sport and fitness, not forgetting tea-drinking, and theatre.

Meet at the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens entrance pillars at 372 Kennington Lane, next to Royal Vauxhall Tavern SE11 5AW.

The tour ends at the Garden Museum, 5 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7LB

0rganised by Vauxhall One.

Location

Address

Tyers Street
Vauxhall
London
SE11 5HL
United Kingdom

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Contact details

Contact name: Lambeth Parks & Open Spaces
Contact job title: Parks Development Officer - North Lambeth
Contact phone: 020 7926 9000
Enquiries email: parks@lambeth.gov.uk