Events

Local crime fiction writer and Chair of the Clapham Book Festival, Julie Anderson, will lead this two hour walk around Clapham Common discussing the famous writers who have lived in Clapham and their works from the seventeenth century onwards.

A chess club for all ages and abilities. Chess boards and pieces provided.  

Drop in on short tours of Brixton’s historic windmill running across the weekend.

No booking but you may need to queue. Cafe, exhibition, Windmill shop, toilets.

There are commemorations of over 600 service personnel fatal casualties from the First World War at WNC.

Use flour from the mill to build a collective three dimensional cross section of Brixton Windmill. Explore the architecture of Brixton Windmill as part of Heritage Open Days Festival.

Drop in workshops suitable for all ages.

Congratulations, Explorers! You've completed your Summer Explorer Reading Adventure. Now it's time to celebrate your amazing achievement with a fun party and collect your well-earned medals and certificates! Well done

Congratulations, Explorers! You've completed your Summer Explorer Reading Adventure. Now it's time to celebrate your amazing achievement with a fun party and collect your well-earned medals and certificates!  Well done 

This 90-minute walk shows how shopping grew from nothing to make Brixton South London’s biggest shopping centre by the 1920s. The development of shopping was one of the key elements in the development of Brixton and a vital part of its history.

Congratulations, Explorers! You've completed your Summer Explorer Reading Adventure. Now it's time to celebrate your amazing achievement with a fun party and collect your well-earned medals and certificates!  Well done 

London’s legendary outdoor karaoke is back, and it’s still totally free.

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

Drop in on short tours of Brixton’s historic windmill running across the weekend.

No booking but you may need to queue. Cafe, exhibition, Windmill shop, toilets.

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

Use flour from the mill to build a collective three dimensional cross section of Brixton Windmill. Explore the architecture of Brixton Windmill as part of Heritage Open Days Festival.

Drop in workshops suitable for all ages.

Tracey Gregory and Geoff Simmons are back together for their popular guided walks of Lambeth Cemetery.

Explore how the streets of Clapham South came to be laid out and discover the people who made it happen, including Pugin’s master builder, a defrocked lawyer from Norwich and the disgraced linen draper from Tottenham with three wives (or so he cla

A guided walk exploring Waterloo’s connections to Sci-Fi classic ‘War of the Worlds’ and other Lambeth related aspects in the life and works of HG Wells.

Hotel Chocolat, Waterloo Station, Unit 22 Ground Floor SE1 8SW

Explore the “dead-centre” of Streatham with local historian and writer, John W Brown and Streatham Society Trustee Trudy Kuhn.

After the creation of the London Borough of Lambeth in 1965, Lambeth’s new Department of Architecture and Planning, led by Ted Hollamby, went on to design some unusually diverse and distinctive council housing across the borough.

Join our basic computer skills class to set up an email, learn how to print documents, browse the internet and more basic computer skills.