Street names

In addition to the streets and locations named after the Vassal and Tulse families, a number of other individual streets in Lambeth are named after people with links to the trans-Atlantic slave trade or colonialism.

Juxon Street, SE11

Archbishop William Juxon whose family was involved in the sugar trade in Jamaica and whose family coat of arms has four African heads.

Tradescant Road and statue (off South Lambeth Road), SW8

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.

Rhodesia Road, SW9

The former colonial name for Zambia and Zimbabwe derived from Cecil Rhodes.

Thurlow Road, SE21

Named after Edward Thurlow, politician and Lord Chancellor and opponent of the abolition of the slave trade.