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Albert Square (no, not that one) is an unexpectedly grand garden square in the Stockwell/Oval/Vauxhall triangle. Additional glamour is conferred by the area famously being home to one or two names from the acting profession.

Each year, the residents association, the Albert Square and St Stephen’s Association (ASSA) holds an annual street sale.

 

Residents of Albert Square, Aldebert Terrace, St Stephen’s Terrace and Wilkinson Street set up stalls outside their homes and sell unwanted toys, clothes, books, DVDs, furniture, plants and prett

 

y much anything apart from food (which is not allowed). Some give the proceeds to charity.

This year, for the first time, residents from the TARA area are also invited to take part.

It’s all a bit bonkers but good natured, and there’s always a few treasures to be had, especially for early birds.

Trash or Treasure?
Saturday 14 May 2022
10-30am-1pm

Find on Google Maps : https://goo.gl/maps/y5eM54LytDADm4WW7

 

Each year, the Albert Square and St Stephen’s Association (ASSA) holds an annual Trash or Treasure? street sale. Residents of Albert Square, Aldebert Terrace, St Stephen’s Terrace and Wilkinson Street set up stalls outside their homes and sell unwanted toys, clothes, books, DVDs, furniture, plants and pretty much anything apart from food (which is not allowed).

This year, ASSA has invited TARA to take part. If you would like to set up a stall in Albert Square to sell your stuff please contact Paul Madesley via tara@tradescant.net. Paul will team you up with a resident of the square who will give you a pitch outside their home.

Trash or Treasure? takes place on Saturday 14th May from 10:30am-1pm.

If you can’t take part in person then:

Got preloved stuff that is too good for the bin yet might be looking for a good home? Susan Bewley on Aldebert Terrace will take your stuff and sell it, giving the proceeds to charity. Email Susan via tara@tradescant.net to arrange drop off on the evening of Friday 13th May or first thing on the morning of Saturday 14th May.  All proceeds will go to the Mary Minet Trust, a charity providing basic items for local, impoverished long-term sick people.

Big thanks to St Stephen’s Church whose charity trust has donated £100 to help fill the pocket park on Tradescant Road near the junction with St Stephen’s Terrace.

TARA made great strides in overhauling the pocket park during the recent Freshview event and in over the following weekend (see picture below). This donation will help us fill in the gaps and produce something truly splendid.

 

What a fantastic turnout we had for today’s Freshview. Loads of new faces too. Thank you to everyone who came along and mucked in. Heyford Avenue and Meadow Place were deep-cleaned, the Walberswick planter tidied and replanted, two unstable planters removed, the pocket park de-grassed and replanted, and much more.

But the winner of today’s gold star must be David R. who single-handedly scrubbed the trodden-in paint from south tine pavement of Tradescant Road, achieving something the might and resources of Lambeth Council signally failed to achieve. Thanks to Lambeth Council’s Jason Prentice though for helping out and loaning tools.

Following the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, Lambeth Council has been carrying out a review of which statues, monuments and street names in the borough have links to the slave trade.Having identified them, Lambeth is inviting views on what, if anything, to do about it.

Perhaps surprisingly the John Tradescants, after whom Tradescant Road is named, appear on the list for the following connection:

“John Tradescant the Elder and the Younger, Lambeth gardeners who made occasional use of slave trade vessels travelling to N America and Africa for the transport of botanical and anthropological specimens.”

Do you have a view? You can give Lambeth Council your views here: https://lambethunited.commonplace.is/proposals/street-names/step1 (the main website is here: https://lambethunited.commonplace.is/ )

Once the redrawn ward boundaries come into effect in May, the entire TARA area will be in a single ward – Oval, which will make dealing with the council much simpler.

One of the Oval ward councillors also happens to be the Leader of Lambeth Council – Cllr Claire Holland (right).

Claire is keen to get to know more about our area, its problems, and its people, so we’ve invited her to meet with TARA members in April.

You can help us by letting us know in advance what your key issues and problems are so we can let her know before the actual meeting. Many thanks.

Please respond here: https://forms.gle/v1SAh555p17Q5ZSm6

Please complete by 5pm on Monday 28 March.

 

Helen C. writes:

Hi Everyone.

Litter is a massive concern for us all.

Please help me evidence-base our concerns and requests in our  forthcoming discussions with Claire Holland, Leader of the Lambeth Council and Oval ward councillor, and Serco (Lambeth’s waste contractor) by taking a minute to fill out this quick questionnaire https://forms.gle/oxebRREc7GqaPhrj7 .

Please feel free to forward this to other residents – the more evidence the better.

Many thanks to Andrew for help with this and committee member for testing and comments.

If you could fill in by Saturday 26th March 2022 that would be fabulous.

Helen.

Is your garden or patio being taken over by a too-successful plant of some kind? Shrub, bush, whatever? If so, TARA would like to take it off your hands to help us fill out the build-outs on Dorset Road and the pocket park in Tradescant Road. We’ll be re-planting at the Freshview day on 2 April 2022. If you have something you can offer us, please email tara@tradescant.net. Many thanks!

Spring is here and that means it’s time for another TARA Freshview. So why not muck in with your neighbours and spruce up our streets!

You can do whatever you feel needs doing –

• weeding or planting,
• painting front walls
• cutting back unruly hedges
• deep cleaning problem areas
• fixing planters
• painting over graffiti.
• … or whatever you like

The event is supported by Lambeth Council’s Freshview team who bring the tools and materials we will need.

Best of all, it’s a chance to meet your neighbours and even make new friends. Some of us have been doing Freshviews here since 2011 and we haven’t killed each other yet.

Freshview takes place on Saturday 2 April 2022 from 10am-2pm. Meet at the Pocket Park where Tradescant Road meets St Stephen’s Terrace (if you want to do work on Tradescant Road and Walberswick Street) OR outside 1 Heyford Avenue (if you want to work on Heyford Ave, Heyford Terrace, Dorset Road, Old South Lambeth Road, Meadow Place, Stamford Buildings).

This year’s Freshview is organised by Celia and Roberto. Please help them by letting them know are coming along here: https://forms.gle/5w9PyUkQXatENoVY9

Celia has discovered instructions for a one-hour self-guided walk around our area published by Lambeth Libraries and is trialling a group walk for TARA. Feel free to join her. No need to book. No charge. All very informal.

The walk’s description says: “Take a one hour walk through the streets around our local library and discover some of Lambeth’s hidden histories. This walk takes you through the site of the Tradescants’ house and gardens where seventeenth century visitors would come to view the the world’s first public museum collection; on past the Regency buildings of the Beaufoy vinegar works; through the green haven of Vauxhall Park; and on to the architectural transformation of the area around Nine Elms and the Wandsworth Road – all to be found within a one hour circuit of South Lambeth Library.”

Meet outside Tate South Lambeth Library, 180 South Lambeth Road, London SW8 1QP for 11am on Saturday 19 March 2022.