Kennington Park is in Kennington, London, England, in London SE11, and lies between Kennington Park Road and St Agnes Place. It was opened in 1854. Previously the site had been Kennington Common. This is where the Chartists gathered for their biggest 'monster rally' on 10 April 1848. Soon after this demonstration the common was enclosed and, sponsored by the royals, made into a public park. Kennington is a place in the London Borough of Lambeth. ... SE11 is the postcode for Kennington in the London Borough of Lambeth. ... 1977 eviction fails St Agnes Place was a squatted street in Kennington, South London, UK which had been resisting eviction orders for 30 years. ... 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Kennington Common was a site of public executions until 1800 as well as being the South London speakers corner. One of the most illustrious orators to speak here was John Wesley who is reputed to have attracted a crowd of 30,000. Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, now entirely abolished in all circumstances, has a long history, dating from before the modern United Kingdom actually existed. ... 1800 (MDCCC) was an common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... For the Canadian television series, see Speakers Corner. ... John Wesley (June 17, 1703–March 2, 1791) was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. ...

Cricket may have first been played in London on the common. Today Kennington Park east is hosting the first inner London community cricket ground, sponsored by Surrey County Cricket Club whose home is nearby at The Oval. Surrey County Cricket Club (SCCC) is an English first-class cricket team, based at The Oval cricket ground in London. ... The famous gasometers, which are now listed buildings. ...

In the 1970s the old tradition of mass gatherings returned to the park which was host to the start of many significant marches to Parliament. Today this tendency is opposed by a few locals who prefer the model of the Victorian Park. The Friends of Kennington Park, FoKP, provides a local forum for this struggle. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Insert non-formatted text hereInsert non-formatted text here:This article is about the legislative institution. ...

Timeline Kennington Common/Park

pre 1600

Probable site of ton or mound

• c1500 BC Recently discovered post stumps in the South Thames foreshore near Vauxhall Bridge point to a ritual jetty or possibly the first London bridge, by the outlet of the River Effra. The Effra formed the southerly boundary to the common. Three closely related geographic features defined the area of Kennington Common as sacred in ancient times. The sharp bend in the river Effra before it flowed into the Thames, a strategic ton or mound, and an important fork in the main road from the river crossing which is now known as London Bridge. This made it a sacred place of 'national' assembly which may have related to the jetty or bridge.
• The ton may have also been used by the locals of the south London marsh community as a refuge from tidal flash floods! As the floods receded the river silt left a level playing field - ideal for playing team games.
• This has to be inferred from analysis of archeology and landscape. Written records of the area are only available for the past 400 years or so.

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1600s

• 1600 gives the first record of the common. "The common was bounded on the South West by Vauxhall Creek" It seems that the common extended over marshy land to the South West of the Roman Road Stane Street, now Kennington Park Road. When the common became bounded by the Kennington Park Road is not known. There is a 1660 record of a common keeper being paid for grazing. See commoner
• 1661 The infamous Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens are laid out nearby.
• 1678 First recorded execution at Kennington Common was that of Sarah Elston who was burnt for murdering her husband. Kennington Common was the South London equivalent of Tyburn (now Marble Arch).
• 1679 On the 7th April Dorothy Lillingstone was executed for bastard child murder.

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1700s

The road fork looking north 2004

• 1724 - June 18, Dartford v London Cricket match on Kennington Common (St James Evening Post, June 16)
• 1725 First record of the Green Man and Horns tavern 'in' Kennington Common. The cricket played on the common used the Horns as a base. Also other sports including quoits and bowling were played.
• 1729 - "On Tuesday was played a great cricket match on Kennington Common between the Londoners and the Dartford men for a considerable sum of money, wager and bets, and the latter beat the former very much" (London Evening Post, August 7).
• 1739 Methodists John Wesley and George Whitefield preach to 30,000. Whitefield is remembered in the nearby 'Whitefield House' home of the Evangelical Alliance. Dissenting methodists, such as the son of a slave Robert Wedderburn, spoke in a more radical voice on Kennington Common speaking out against the enclosures and slavery (active from 1786 through 1813). Kennington Common is the South London Speakers Corner, a kind of open air free university of the day...
• 1743 24th August James Hunt and Thomas Collins hanged for sodomy at KC gallows
• 1746 30th July. Nine men of the Manchester Regiment who had taken part in the Jacobite Rising were hung, drawn and quartered.
• 1751 A road was "cut through gradens 80 foot wide" from Kennington Common to Westminster Bridge. (Gentlemans Magazine Monday 16th December 1751. The road is Kennington Road and comes up to the common next to the Horns tavern.
• 1767 The common was flooded by a high tide coming up Vauxhall Creek.
• 1790 William Blake moved to North Lambeth and must have attended commons meetings in the 1790s, in all likelihood with Thomas Paine)
• 1792 Mungo a black prize fighter breaks his opponents jaw, a local carpenter, in a match on the common. (Peter Linebaugh The London Hanged Verso 2003 p. 414)
• 1799 The last person to be hanged at the common (six years after execution was ended at Tyburn) was a fraudster from nearby Camberwell by the name Badger

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1800s

St Marks Church 1824

• 1800 The much respected Mr Briant becomes landlord of the Horns runs a famous Glee Club. Briant died 1852 but his relatives still live in Kennington, one of whom chaired the Parks Management Advisory Committee in 1996.

• 1815 Feb 28th A mob breaks windows 'round the Horns'. LifeGuards called out to quell the mob. The Riot Act read. In 1819 'Peterloo Massacre signaled an end to repression by violence. The sword was replaced by cultural & police repression...
• 1818 Camberwell New Road built east/west cutting the southern corner of the common off from the mass.

• 1824 St Marks Church by D.R.Roper, built on an enclosed corner of the common, over the river Effra. Promoted by The Church of England as the 'salvation of the common', twenty four years later it was the vicar of this church who led the move to enclose the whole common.
• 1832 1st Reform act, after which husting were set up on Kennington Common (outside The Horns)
• 1845 Surrey County Cricket Club formed (22 August formally constituted on 18th October) at the Horns

• 1848, 10 April Chartist Monster Rally organised by Black Briton and leader of London Chartists William Cuffey. Chartism was a federation of different groups who had agreed on a set of political demands for an inclusive people's democracy. Chartism was the first national working class organisation and the rally on the 10th April 1848 the high point of the Chartist movement. This was a year known for its revolutions see Revolution of 1848 The Irish famine 1845 -50 killed a million and caused another 1.5 M to flee
• 1848, 10 April First photograph of a crowd taken by William Kilburn probably from the Horns. The Daguerrotype negative is now kept by and copyright Queen Elizabeth and is kept in the Royal archives at Windsor Castle.

• 1852 Kennington Common was enclosed. The petition for enclosure was led by vicar of St Marks, aided by the young Prince of Wales. No more gathering or vulgar recreations allowed (without permission!) The sacred mound levelled, the common fenced and landscaped into an urban park. Planted with mostly sapling London Plane trees (which are still living). North and South game pitches are fenced with iron railings (removed in WW2).

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'Alberts Cottages' - 1852

• 1853 Prince Consort Model Lodge (aka 'Prince Albert's Cottages') re-erected from the Great Exhibition (where they were provided by the Society for the Improvement of the Condition of the Labouring Classes) and back porch added.. Architect: Herny Roberts.
• 1853 September 13th The new toll house opens at the fork in Kennington Park Road was built
• 1854 Kennington Park opened maintained by the Crowns Office of Works
• 1859 Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens opened for the last time on the night of Monday, 25 July, 1859.
• 1861 Two panelled gardens laid our by John Gibson on the west side either side the lodge.
• 1861 A gymnasium erected (now the old Tennis courts)
• 1861 Meeting of the Juvenile Temperance Society allowed in the summer.(PRO work 1/71)
• 1862 Felix Slade drinking water fountain designed by Charles Driver. Slade donated this after feeling sorry for the local children who had been taking their refreshment from the cab horse trough.
• 1869 Sir Henry Doulton donates local artist George Tinworth's 'Fountain of Life'

• 1867 2nd Reform Act Lower middle class and artisans get the vote

• 1874 Parish of St Agnes, Kennington Park founded.
• 1877 Church of St Agnes, Kennington Park consecrated by the Lord Bishop of London.

• 1884 3rd Reform Act All adult men get the vote.

• 1887 KP maintenance passed over to London's Metropolitan Board of Works
• 1889 KP passed to London County Council that later became the Greater London Council, GLC, in 1965
• 1897 An Arts & Crafts style refreshment house erected which is now a rare survival.
• 1898 Princess of Wales Theatre, designed by WGR Sprague, opens at the height of the musichall era. (closed c1934 and site CP'd for flats 1949) Had one of earliest air conditioning systems.
• 1899 The first all-night illuminated footpath through a public park.

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1900s

The Refreshment House-1897

• 1900 Bandstand completed with seated concerts from military bands playing there until 1950 Sundays, Wednesdays and bank holidays - This was 'Rational Recreation' set against the vulgarity of the surrounding music hall and tavern cuiture. Charlie Chaplin grew up locally and is said to have met his first girlfriend in the park. His errant father habituated the Horns.
• 1914 c "The ancient privileges of the 'ton' are preserved, however, on a triangular piece of ground fenced off for the purpose (the site probably of the mound), where a notice states that here public meetings may be held." 'A tradition may neither be made nor destroyed' Benjamin Disraeli (from Prehistoric London: its mounds and circles, by E.O.Gordon Covenant Publishing 1914)
• 1914 c The railings were removed for war use. The first bomb dropped on London in World War I is said to have been dropped from a Zeppelin on the south field.
• 1920 Kennington Park Extension Committee formed who bought land that became the swimming pool, flower garden and children's playground
• 1924 War Memorial designed by Lucas Lancaster and Lodge erected (by public subscription?)
• 1926 KP reoccupied during the General Strike

• 1928 Females finally enfranchised

Tinworth Fountain 1869

• 1930s Wooden shelter (replaced in the 1950s and due again for replacement)
• 1931 Old English Garden designed by Col. J.J. Sexby opened
• 1931 The Lido provided by the LCC was opened (It closed at the end of the 1987 season - see external link below)
• 1934 Last license given to Princess of Wales Theatre...
• 1938 Architecturally bland Park Superintendent's house built in north east corner.
• 1940 15th October. A public bomb shelter suffers a direct hit with up to 100 people killed. Only 50 bodies identified by name, possibly 17 peoples remains left in ground (first memorial service 12th October 2003 in St Marks). The local areas of Lambeth and Southwark very heavily bombed in The Blitz.
• 1940? Horns pub bomb damaged
• 1940 The Park used for allottments so people can grow their own food. (source: aerial photos taken by the Royal Air Force)
• 1949 A 24ft high illuminated Xmas tree erected in the park

Kennington Park House - site of The Princess of Wales Theatre (see 1898)

• 1950s The Horns Tavern was 'one of the most famous landmarks of South London'. It is still remembered as being a centre of Kennington's community spirit in the Fifties.
• 1958, 24th May, St Agnes new parish church, designed by Ralph Covell, (who was the parish organist) is consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Kingston. The old church was demolished in the 1940s following bombing by enemy action. John Betjeman, poet laureate, dedicated his first Collins Guide to the English Parish Church to the memory of St Agnes Kennington Park, describing it as being “…destroyed by the diocese of Southwark after some war damage.”
• 1960s Horns demolished (replaced by Col. Richard Siefert's Department of Social Security - see photo) From a social centre to a centre of social control?
• 196? Land to the east of St Agnes Place is designated public open space that becomes Kennington Park East.
• 1963 Two piece bronze Reclining Figure No 3 by sculptor Henry Moore (the son of a Yorkshire coal miner) bought for the new prizewinning Brandon Highrise Estate (KP east)
• 1971 KP control passes to Lambeth Council.
• c1976 Radical religion returns to Kennington Park with the establishment of the Rastafarian Temple in St Agnes Place backing onto the park.
• 1974 St Agnes Place housing squatted and defended against demolition (1977) with a high court injunction (the first to be obtained by telephone)
• 1977 Bob Marley visits the Rastafarian Temple frequently while recording Exodus. There is film footage of him playing football in the park (film by Howard Johnson then a student at the National Film School)
• 1978 The skateboard bowl was erected on the site of derelict tennis courts (source: eyewitness Andrew Sawdon)
• 1978 November 5th Public gatherings return to the park with a municipal firework display and bonfire.
• 1984 Oval Fountain designed by landscape architect Georgina Livingston.
• 1981 Lambeth Fightback Campaign used the park as an assembly point. The first recorded use for a political gathering since the enclosure.

Oval Fountain - site of public hangings until 1800

• 1986 5th July Gay Pride march started in Kennington Park followed in the next ten years by many political rallies. The return of the commons spirit?
• 1988 The much loved swimming pool is closed, filled in and covered with tennis courts.
• 1990 31st March A branch of the historic Poll Tax march starts in the Park

• 1996 KP Management Advisory Committee (the MAC) started by Lambeth Council prepares lottery bid with the architect Carl Callaghan.
• 1997 16pp pamphlet on the parks history from a working class viewpoint written and produced by Stefan Szczelkun. In the following year it sells over 1000 copies in the local newsagents, closest bookshops and so on.
• 1998 10th April The 150th anniversary of the Chartist rally was commemorated by a motley bunch of laterday Chartists led by Marianne from KP estate and helped by Louisa and Stefan.
• 1998 12th April Reclaim the Streets and Liverpool Dockers March rally sets off from the park

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Reclining Figure (1951) outside the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is characteristic of Moores sculptures, with an abstract female figure intercut with voids. ... The White Yorkshire rose. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... H.M. Haile Selassie I Rasta, or the Rastafari movement, is a new religious movement that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia, as Jah (the Rastafari name for God incarnate, from a shortened form of Jehovah found in Psalms 68:4 in the King James Version of... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... 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Six color rainbow gay pride flag flying over Castro Street, San Francisco, June 2005 The gay pride or simply pride campaign of the gay rights movement has three main premises: that people should be proud of what they are, that sexual diversity is a gift, and that sexual orientation and... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... A poll tax, head tax, soul tax, or capitation is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per individual (as opposed to a percentage of income). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Reclaim the Streets (RTS) is a group of people with a collective ideal of community ownership of public spaces. ... The Liverpool Dockers refused to cross a picket line. ...

2000s

Department of Social Security site of The Horns

• 2001 Last municipal fireworks display.. This was the only park event attended annually by almost everyone locally. (Patrick Keiller's film 'London' (1993) has a long sequence of the bonfire.)
• 2002 July 7th Park Arts event. 12 artists install work in the park for the day.
• 2002 Inaurgual meeting of Friends of Kennington Park, FoKP. The condition of the park is very poor. The cafe and toilets are shut.
• 2002? Cricket returns to Kennington Park East with Tony Moody's catchy shubby cricket project. Kennington United CC supported by Surrey CCC at the Oval.
• 2002 The cafe re-opens and becomes a haven
• 2003 Trees for London (now called Trees for Cities see link below) move into Prince Consort Lodge and hold a very well attended community tree planting day in the park on 29th March 2003
• 2003 Lambeth council get eviction order against St Agnes Place.
• 2003 30th May South London Press reports 'Human Poo in Park Outrage' Behind this is a local campaign against an Ecuadorian community group playing volleyball in the park. The same group campaign against football teams... The return of enclosure reaction?
• 2003 12th October First memorial service at St Marks for those that died in the park shelter in 1940.

War Memorial-1924

• 2004 cJune Lambeth Council posters announce illegality of barBQs
• 2004 The Public Toilets are finally reopened...
• 2004 July Jumble sale organised by Cathy Preece raises over £700 for park bird boxes made by local community eco group Roots & Shoots [1]
• 2004 August Ecuadorian community excluded from using the park for volleyball. Return of the enclosure of the spirit?
• 2004 4th September: Commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the park with a funday organised by FoKP.
• 2004 October SaveKPVolleyball [SaveKPVolleyball [at] aol.com] campaign group sends an open letter to Lambeth Council defending the use of the park for Ecuadorian community volleyball. But volleyball and the Ecuadorian community, continues to be excluded.
• 2004 November/December Birdboxes are installed by Roots & Shoots, as reported in South London Press Friday, December 3, 2004 Page 7
• 2005 12th March Community Planting Day in Kennington Park east to define the boundary of the new cricket pitch. Young cricketers and other local volunteers do the planting including fifteen Lime trees. Trees for Cities with Friends of KP.
• 2005 29th November. Riot police perform mass eviction of squatters in St Agnes Place adjoining the park. The Rastafarian Temple is spared. Also the corner house (No 93) carried on its services to the community until c13th April, 2006 when it was evicted and demolished.

Naphtali - Rastafarian and project coordinator of NN-3 on St Agnes Place

Department of Social Security Building by Richard Seifert on the site of The Horns Tavern, Kennington Park Road Photo by Chloe Bowles 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Department of Social Security Building by Richard Seifert on the site of The Horns Tavern, Kennington Park Road Photo by Chloe Bowles 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams, separated by a high net, hit a ball back and forth over the net between the teams. ... War Memorial Kennington Park Photo by Chloe Bowles 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... War Memorial Kennington Park Photo by Chloe Bowles 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1977 eviction fails St Agnes Place was a squatted street in Kennington, South London, UK which had been resisting eviction orders for 30 years. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (480x640, 104 KB) Summary Naphtali is a Rastafarian and activist in St Agnes place. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (480x640, 104 KB) Summary Naphtali is a Rastafarian and activist in St Agnes place. ... Rasta hairstyle Rastafarianism is a religious movement that believes in the divinity of ex Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie. ...

External links

• An growing archive of KP pics
• The Church of St Agnes Kennington Park
• Friends of KP message-board cum diary
• The 1997/98 pamphlet
• List of those listed as killed in the 1940 bomb
• The Horns Tavern
• another Volleyball dispute
• William Cuffey the Chartist leader
• Robert Wedderburn, 'British Working-class hero'
• Trees for Cities
• Richard Siefert portrait
• South London Press
• History of St Agnes Place
• St Agnes Place website
• The Lido
• Creative Commons?
• George Tinworth

Acknowledgements

Chloe Bowles for the photos above (contact via discussion page above)

Any further links or exact dates would be appreciated... See also Talk:Kennington Park#Notes on the sources of my information.