The Lambeth Country Show in Brockwell Park is one of the highlights of the south London cultural calendar. Except that, in 2026, it's not happening. Here's what's going on — or rather, not.
The Lambeth Country Show has been a fixture of south London's summer for over 50 years, but in 2026 it's been spiked. Image: Eventlambeth via CC BY-SA 4.0
What is the Lambeth Country Show?
With its (literal) roots in 1967's inaugural Brockwell Park Flower Show, the Lambeth Country Show became its own thing in 1974 — a pastoral palooza of livestock displays, craft stalls, jousting, vegetable sculptures: all that countrysidey wholesomeness you don't readily associate with south London.
By the mid 1980s, major music artists had become part of the programming, and the Brockwell Park event was beckoning in crowds of 200,000. Since then, it's been a summer highlight of London's cultural calendar — welcoming 120,000 people over the weekend — a number trumped only by the Notting Hill Carnival.
