Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens

Had so much fun at the walk for humanity with the British Red Cross!

I was contemplating the night sky with millions of stars and the beautiful quiet time.
As you can see, you can enjoy Vauxhall Pleasure Garden during the day, but as well nighttime can be really lovely. Especially if you want to connect with your inner soul being present at the same time.
I am really recommending to give it a go and try something different and new.

Visited Vauxhall Gardens for the first time, attending a free karaoke event. What great fun! The kids absolutely loved it and I was extra chuffed they had a bar, ice cream van and amenities. Very close to Vauxhall tube station. The gardens was a popular choice for locals on a Sunday afternoon.

Amazing out door cinema experience. We really enjoyed, would highly recommend.

Beautiful city garden and farm house. Great times

Formerly, or also known as Spring Gardens, the current rebranding rather oversells what has become a pleasant-enough sanitised (read: bland, featureless) cut-through. And a big part of these 'gardens' right in the middle, isn't even grassed over - which begs the question, does gravel and concrete still constitute a garden or park when mother nature is getting edged out almost as the main surface? When does a park become a car park (albeit pedestrianised)? This place of old used to have a real identity and rep of its own; it had actual destination status in Vauxhall's grungier, edgier days. Now it's been spruced up and sapped of any trace of these underground unofficial identities.
After all, councils have become the natural enemy of organic social movements, just as they are to any signs of wild nature. Their structural place in London society makes them the standard bearer of a very modern, urban belief in total rational human policy making. Total. This sets them against any uncontrollable, unpredictable, nonconforming forces. The council often makes no secret of how it is going about purging us of whatever this may be from unruly tree roots to young boys on escooters to people in parks. Councils unfortunately are essentially sitting prey for the vicelike power of those 'professional residents'-cum-letter-writers (whose voices more or less run wherever you live in London as long as there's a smattering of white affluent locals with time on their hands). These together make a virtue of cleansing such spaces of any unauthorized activities or wild, organic intrusions on the neatness. natural, or humanly anarchic. Anything that cannot be dull-ly planned by committee meeting. crushing respond to the voices of a small But to be, here was a place of shared respite for all those misfit tribes that made Vauxhall their spiritual home. Known as a common ground for refuge, taking the weight off after a night of crazy fun and this being the essential forum for debriefing on the night with mates and checking all your mates were there, others the successful ones were continuing the magnetic passions of that brand new love affair just found on a vauxhall dancefloor and they are sure they've met the one, again 😉.
Not to say there aren't still very worthwhile places to visit immediately adjacent to this park - highlights being surely the Vauxhall city farm and the unique, totally eccentric but also now essential tea rooms (-cum-occasional-theatre). The latter is unmissable as it juts right into the park and its success is a tribute to the driven passion and vision of its owner/s. The area owes a debt. Imagine this corner of the park without this place and with just rows of estates and a sad, derelict pub, which was here what they took on a decade ago. This establishment is giving back so much free "social capital" to the area around in terms of life, bustle, culture, cakes so big they should probably be illegal and clothing fashions from a bygone era.

Though technically, it's not a dog park. I have found it quite nice to take my dog here for a run. Lots of space and usually isn't too many dogs. Any owner I have encoj tired has been respectful. So I'd recommend if local

1st time in the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. Had such a lovely time watching a movie on the big screen. So many people came out. Was such a good vibe. Today Perfect Pitch. Next Tuesday Ratatouille!!