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- 6Sep2026
Unexpected West Norwood (Walk)
Join Lambeth Tour Guide Nikky Catto to explore West Norwood's hidden sides from its links to water, its inspiring women and woodlands. Experience its Jewish history, film and literary connections and feast on facts about its industrial influence.
- 6Sep2026
Leigham Court Road - a hyper-local hike (Walk)
Join folklorist and Lambeth Tour Guide Em Fleming for a Sunday stroll. Starting at Streatham Common we'll wander all the way down to Streatham Hill, learning about Leigham Court Road's past residents, secrets and scandals along the way!
- 6Sep2026
Irish Stories South of the River (Walk)
Join Lambeth Tour Guide Christina Fitzgerald for a 2 hour walk discovering Irish figures and events, their stories, struggles and achievements including local London history, on the streets in the northern part of the borough of Lambeth, ending in
- 6Sep2026
Urban Sketching with the Brixton Society
Urban sketching invites us to look closely at the places that tell Lambeth’s story, noticing details that are often overlooked in the pace of everyday life.
- 6Sep2026
Brixton’s Black Herstory: Sisterhood, Solidarity and Resistance (Walk)
Join Lambeth Tour Guide Rebecca for a walk celebrating the extraordinary legacies of Brixton’s Black women.
- 6Sep2026
Cosy Craft (Cre8tive Arts)
Explore and learn both old and new crafts. Enjoy various weekly workshops, including drawing, painting, flower pressing, and more, with materials provided.
- 6Sep2026
North Brixton and Stockwell’s Post WWII Musical Heritage (Walk)
Simon Morrow, coordinator of the Brixton Music Memories project, conducts a new guided walk through some of the lesser known names and places in Brixton’s rich post WWII musical heritage.
- 6Sep2026
The History of Clapham Common (Walk)
We trace the history of Clapham Common from medieval grazing ground, through recreation place for 18th century incomers who built villas around it, associations with the Clapham Sect, witness to transformation into a Victorian suburb, its notable
- 7Sep2026
Wellbeing
This group is run by Age Exchange Lambeth. It provides support, friendship and activities for people living with dementia and their Carers.
Free to attend - 7Sep2026
St Leonard’s Church Graveyard, Bell Tower and Crypt (Tour)
Explore the “dead-centre” of Streatham with local historian and writer John Brown and Lambeth Tour Guide Trudy Kuhn.
- 7Sep2026
Basic computer skills class
Join our basic computer skills class to set up an email, learn how to print documents, browse the internet and more basic computer skills.
- 8Sep2026
Under 5s Wriggle and Rhyme
Join our librarians in the children’s library for our interactive wriggle and rhyme each Tuesday and Thursday morning.
- 8Sep2026
Wriggle and Rhyme
Join our librarians in the children’s library for our interactive wriggle and rhyme .
- 8Sep2026
Seven turkeys, five sucking pigs, and three miniatures" – A History of Lambeth’s own art school, the City and Guilds of London Art School (Talk)
The story of the City and Guilds of London Art School, from its foundation as the Lambeth School of Art providing instruction to working artisans, to today’s highly regarded, distinctive, educational institution.
- 8Sep2026
Young Readers Club
A club designed to support children learning to read, struggling readers, and those learning English. The sessions are led by a retired school teacher and provide personalised guidance to help children build confidence in reading.
- 8Sep2026
Henry Doulton’s “Lady Artists” (Talk)
Dr Jane Jordan’s illustrated talk looks inside Doulton’s Lambeth Art Pottery, Vauxhall to discover what conditions were like for professional women artists, and why many chose long careers over marriage.
- 9Sep2026
A Tonic to the Nation: Refugees and Immigrants at the Festival of Britain
A one-day symposium, exhibition and concert marking the Festival of Britain's 75th anniversary, exploring the overlooked contribution of Jewish immigrants and refugees from Nazism to the Festival and its legacy and by extension, to British cu
- 9Sep2026
Crossing the Thames (Walk)
Seven bridges cross the Thames from the borough of Lambeth (counting Hungerford and the Golden Jubilee bridges as three) but more than that have been replaced or vanished altogether.
- 9Sep2026
Chatterbook Club
Are you between the ages of 7 and 11 and love to read? Then join our book club to talk about books, write reviews, make new friends, and have a blast with fun activities! Light refreshments provided.