The Lambeth Heritage Festival 2026 programme brochures have arrived! Some events are always very popular and places can be limited, so be sure to book in advance to avoid missing out. You can also browse it online and download a PDF version: www.lambethlocalhistoryforum.org.uk/lambeth-heri...

Teenagers playing billiards in the Springfield Methodist Church hall, Wandsworth Road, South Lambeth/ Vauxhall. c. 1968.

Visitors to the South Bank interacting with Jeppe Hein's 'Appearing Rooms' water sculpture. The Danish artist's work is a regular feature during the summer months on the elevated terrace adjacent to the Royal Festival Hall. Digital image dated 24th August 2008

The London Bathing Season [Old Father Thames to boy chimney sweep] "Come my dear! Come to its Old Thames, and have a nice Bath!" Punch magazine June 18th 1869. The London Bathing Season, showing the former condition of the Thames.

UK records hottest ever May day, and here's @brockwelllido.bsky.social showing the swimming pool and fountain with crowds having fun in 1948. The Lido was built by the London County Council in 1937 at a cost of £25,000 and listed Grade II in 2003. #POOL #LondonLidos #LambethHeritage #1940s

📸 Have you checked out our current exhibition yet? The Triangle by photographer Jan Enkelmann is on display at Lambeth Archives until 29 May. Shot over 9 years, the exhibition offers a powerful portrait of Brixton, its streets and its communities through the eyes of a South London resident.

C20 is saddened to hear of the death of Sir Terry Farrell (1938-2025), an architect who traversed myriad styles - from Modernism to High-Tech and PoMo - and was a champion of conservation, urbanism and contextual design. We’re raising a glass, or perhaps that should be a TV-am eggcup, in his honour.

The Society is saddened to hear of the death of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (1939-2025). An inspirational architect and always a gentlemen, his buildings are beautiful, original and inventive solutions to elegantly analysed briefs. We can think of no finer tribute than listing his Waterloo Int. Terminal.

A really fine exhibition at @lambetharchives.bsky.social !

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A scale model of what Brixton might have looked like with a motorway running through the middle, and some rather wonky blocks of flats, is the centrepiece of an exhibition about local urban planning. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bri...

The new free exhibition at Lambeth Archives looks at the ambitious world of Ted Hollamby's Department of Architecture and Planning, 1965-1980. Modernism, the future and architectural merit, open until the 26th.

🚨Today's blog post is on the new exhibition 'Building "Homes for Tomorrow": Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980' at @lambetharchives.bsky.social. The images below (a nursery school and a housing scheme for elderly people) capture the era's ideals. municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...

Opening on 15 July A Vanishing Kennington, an exhibition of the Manning Photographers studio archive, now passed to Lambeth Archives, it charts the lives of Lambeth residents and businesses over seventy years from nearly half a million photos. #lambetharchives #photography #lambeth #southlondon