Thames Path, Tradescants, Leake Avenue – On Monday tenth November 2014 I went on a stroll with a few of my household in Lambeth, the place my sister particularly was eager to go to the Backyard Museum within the deconsecrated St Mary’s Church subsequent to Lambeth Palace.
We started our stroll at Waterloo station, making our technique to the riverside path alongside by the Thames and strolling west previous St Thomas’s Hospital. A lttle past that in entrance of Lambeth Palace is a memorial bust of Violette Szabo, (1921-1945) standing on a monument to the SOE, the Maquis and the Norwegian resistance commandos, heroes of Telemark. Szabo, a Lambeth resident, was posthumously awarded the George Cross and the Croix de Guerre and was one of many 117 of the 470 brokers the SOE despatched to France who didn’t survive
On My London Diary I give some extra element concerning the organising of this museum after Rosemary Weekes (later Nicholson) started her marketing campaign to avoid wasting the church and the positive tomb of father and son John Tradescant, seventeenth century plant hunters and royal gardeners in its churchyard as a Museum of Backyard Historical past. Her work collectively along with her husband John Nicholson is commemorated within the backyard with a plaque.
I posted {a photograph} of a sculpture commemorating the 2 John Tradescants – father and son – a number of days in the past within the put up Outdated Clapham Street and South Lambeth – 1989 and wrote quite extra about them later in one other put up on my 1989 stroll, Tradescant, Outdated South Lambeth Rd and Caron, which started with an image of homes on Tradescant Street, constructed on the positioning of their house in South Lambeth, and I’ll strive to not repeat myself greater than I would like right here.
The Tradescant tomb was first commissioned by Hester Tradescant, the widow of the youthful John when he died in 1662 and had elaborate carvings depicting quite fancifully among the specimens of varied varieties from their travels in seek for new vegetation round a lot of the world. These shaped the idea of the primary public museum in England – the Lambeth Ark – and have been fraudulently stolen by a neighbour who pretended to assist this who later introduced them to Oxford College to ascertain the Ashmolean Museum.
By the mid-nineteenth century the unique memorial was in very poor situation, in all probability attacked by the noxious acidic fumes from the various industries within the space, and in 1853 a duplicate was re-carved utilizing limestone from Darley Dale in Derbyshire.
Additionally within the museum backyard if the tomb of the infamous Captain Bligh of the Bounty, on whose ships the Tradescants introduced again a few of their vegetation. John Tradescant the Older had begun work as gardener to one of many wealthiest households in England and right here there’s a recreation of one among his Knot Gardens, based mostly on designs for gardens at Hatfield and Cranbourne.
The museum is properly value a go to, notably for eager gardeners, and has a nice cafe and naturally a store. The Tradescants additionally arrange what was probably the primary backyard centre a brief distance away, although I believe you’ll have then wanted very deep pockets to purchase any of their vegetation, a lot of which are actually quite common in our gardens.
We walked again by way of Archbishop’s Park, a public park with some positive timber and a few inexperienced cyclists.
And got here out on Lambeth Palace Street which has some fashionable buildings and a big steel sculpture, South of the River’ by Bernard Schottlander (b.1924) which was solid by British Metal in 1976 exterior the places of work at Becket Home. As we went previous the Mendacity-In Hospital (now only a frontage to a latest lodge) I discovered we had over 20 minutes earlier than our prepare so I led our group down into Leake Avenue.
Though a lot of a number of elements of London are actually lined with graffiti I believe this tunnel stays the one formally sanctioned space for artists. I’d been there on varied events however I believe it was the primary time the others in our group had been there
It wasn’t the quickest technique to get into Waterloo Station, and took us to the far finish from the place our trains now run from the previous Waterloo Worldwide platforms, however we nonetheless caught our prepare with time to spare.
Many extra photos from the stroll and museum backyard – together with extra graffiti – on My London Diary at Lambeth Stroll.
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