Waterloo Festival Team Jul 19 University of Westminster + Coin Street Over 50s Art Group: RESPAIR WATERLOO In June and July 2021, work created by members of the Coin Street Over 50s Art Group was displayed at St John’s. The pieces responded to...
Waterloo Festival Team Jun 23 #Festivalcast: The Waterloo Shot Tower The Shot Tower stood nearly 200 ft tall on the river front by Waterloo Bridge for nearly 140 years until the early 1960s, an...
Waterloo Festival Team Jun 7 Hart Club and 'Respair' Hart Club designed the ‘Respair’ logo for the Waterloo Festival site. This word, ‘respair’, seems very appropriate for our current moment...
Waterloo Festival Team Jun 4 Meet our sponsors: MyLondonHome MyLondonHome is delighted to be sponsoring this year’s Waterloo Festival at St John’s Waterloo. For many years, MyLondonHome has worked...
Waterloo Festival Team May 25 “The Scene Below Can Be Imagined…” The Shot Tower at the Festival of Britain of 1951.
Waterloo Festival Team May 18 Claude Rogers OBE (1907-1979) The London Group (TLG) is teaming up again with Waterloo Festival over two exhibitions at this year's edition, later in June. We both...
Waterloo Festival Team May 12 RESPAIR: an installation An installation project organised by local artists Chris Clarke, Joao Simoes-Brown and poet Kate Miller following a call for postcards of...
Waterloo Festival Team May 11 Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) The London Group (TLG) is teaming up again with Waterloo Festival over two exhibitions at this year's edition, later in June. We both...
Waterloo Festival Team May 4 William "Bill" Gear (1915-1997) The London Group (TLG) is teaming up again with Waterloo Festival over two exhibitions at this year's edition, later in June. We both...
Waterloo Festival Team May 3 #Festivalcast: Walking the Festival An audio-tour of the South Bank site as it looked at the Festival of Britain of 1951. Led by Alan Powers and Elain Harwood, of the Twentieth
Waterloo Festival Team Nov 16, 2020 2 min Finding Feibusch: an illustrated talk On Sunday, 15th November, St John's presented an illustrated talk on Hans Feibusch and his forgotten murals in churches all over London...
Waterloo Festival Team Oct 22, 2020 1 min Penny Lecture: Memories of a Lost City In collaboration with Morley College, we're bringing you an online Penny Lecture! Discover the history of the Cardboard City encampment...
Waterloo Festival Team Jun 25, 2020 5 min The Story of Waterloo #11: The Queen's Walk Trees Jenny O'Neill decided to investigate the history of The Queen's Walk, an avenue of trees planted in the 1970s to memorialise the Civilian...
Waterloo Festival Team Jun 23, 2020 5 min The story of Waterloo #10: Edward Henry House by Oisín Hetherington A historian’s dream would be a time machine – how useful it would be to hop into my Tardis and travel back to...
Waterloo Festival Team Jun 23, 2020 5 min Artists in Waterloo #7: Gillian Melling Throughout the Waterloo Festival 2020, we've been platforming artists who either live in or are connected to Waterloo. Today, we hear...
Waterloo Festival Team Jun 23, 2020 3 min The churchyard in Waterloo #5: about campsis and echiums We're now exploring the Churchyard at St John's Waterloo, its history, its plants and its kind carers. Jonathan Trustram, from the...
Waterloo Festival Team Jun 22, 2020 2 min Windrush Day: on this day... (22nd June) On the 22nd of June 1948, migrants from countries including Jamaica, Bermuda, Trinidad and British Guiana disembarked from the HMT Empire...
Waterloo Festival Team Jun 21, 2020 2 min Remembering 'Return to Waterloo' - film review by Erin Quigley 'Return to Waterloo' (1984), Ray Davies of ‘The Kinks’ departure into directing, establishes itself as a musical drama...
Waterloo Festival Team Jun 20, 2020 5 min The story of Waterloo #9: Eurostar, Waterloo International and Holiday in a Box by Oliver Ramsay Gray of Holiday in a Box On 14 November 1994, the first scheduled Eurostar train pulled out of Waterloo International...
Waterloo Festival Team Jun 19, 2020 4 min Coin Street's Young Leaders at Waterloo Festival Coin Street Young Leaders meet weekly to discuss issues relevant to young people, plan events and activities and get to know each other....
