Events

Get into reading – gives you a place to relax, a chance to make new friends and a new way to share reading.

You don’t have to read anything. You can simply drop in and enjoy having a good story or poem read to you.

Good Things Foundation are giving away SIM cards via Lambeth Clapham library for adults (over 18) who need smartphone access or to be able to text for jobseeking etc

Gain employment, move into education or find voluntary opportunities

What can I expect?

Discover the history of electrical and standardised time with a free curator’s tour of the museum and workshop at The Clockworks.

Are you interested in gardening?
Do you enjoy spending time outdoors, learning new skills, and helping your local community?
The Minet Garden is in need of a tidy up and we’d love your help!

Discover industrialists like Charles Seely and Henry Thrale whose influence over the area and beyond helped place Furzedown and Streatham on the map.

From St Pauls we will walk down Rectory Grove to Old Town. We will admire the lovely Queen Anne houses and the Polygon.

Step inside the hand-carved home of Kenyan poet Khadambi Asalache before joining house volunteer and Lambeth Tour Guide Nkechi Noel to trace the stories linking this house to the wider history of Wandsworth Road.

This is a walking tour exploring artists and art in Stockwell. We pass the homes and workplaces of artists, stop at murals and sculptures, and linger in gardens.

Iain Boulton offers a colourful guide to the ‘common lands’ of Lambeth as found at Clapham, Streatham, Tooting, and Rush Commons. What were ‘commons’, why did they come into existence, how were they managed and how have they changed since?

Moving back in time beyond Windrush Square and Electric Avenue, Jon Newman leads a walk into the Georgian ribbon-development and the Regency suburb of Brixton, perhaps its true historic heart.

Explore and learn both old and new crafts. Enjoy various weekly workshops, including drawing, painting, flower pressing, and more, with materials provided.

A 1½ hour walk with a Blue Badge Guide, covering 19th- and 20th-century developments near Brixton Windmill including prison, waterworks, trams and telegraphy.

Booking essential

Organised by Friends of Windmill Gardens.

Free family festival celebrating the annual wheat harvest and the crafts of milling and artisan bread making with live music, food, beer, fun games for children, and craft and baking workshops for everyone.

Artworks created during Creative Arts CIC’s Sunday workshops surround the FoBL Banner, a true community work demonstrating the Library's heritage position in Brixton.

A guided walk in the gardens of the former home of Henry Tate: sugar magnate, philanthropist and art collector. Park Hill was built c.1830 by William Leaf, a banker and silk merchant. Tate lived there from 1885.

Waterloo is a microcosm of housing history: over the past 150 years it it has witnessed  the impact of private developers, philanthropists, Housing CoOps and Council Housing. 

Organised by Waterloo Local History Society

We’ll pay our respects to those resting here who were integral to the network Londoners rely on today, hear some dark tales from the early days of train travel and enjoy learning more about this amazing Victorian space.