Future Events

Andrew has been encouraging us to visit Lambeth and Southwark for some time. There does seem to be a wonderfully varied amount of things to see, some we probably all know about but others fall into Andrew’s usual ‘bag of surprises’.

Probably the best known building is the Imperial War Museum.  This was originally built as the Bedlam asylum. The hospital, which became famous for caring for the insane, began life in Bridewell, then it moved to Moorgate and in 1815 it moved again to St. George’s Fields in Southwark.  The Imperial War Museum, founded in 1917, was moved into the central section of the old Bethlem Royal Hospital in 1936. The dome had been raised in 1844.

We will also be able to visit the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of St. George, seat of the Archbishop of Southwark, designed by Augustus Pugin and Andrew will be showing us Lambeth’s Georgian squares, Archbishop’s Park, marvellous views of the Thames, the moving Covid memorial wall and oddities such as Stiffs’ Express, which is what the rather macabre name implies, and the Graffiti Tunnel where graffiti is legal and promoted.