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Home > Information resources > Museum > Pharmacy history and Lambeth

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain moved to its present site in Lambeth in 1976. It was by pure coincidence that there is so much history connected with pharmacy in the area.

The Museum has developed a number of resources to help you to find out about Lambeth’s links with pharmacy:

Download our popular Lambeth Pharmacy Walk guide. With three walks to choose from and a wealth of history to uncover, you’ll find this a fascinating insight to Lambeth’s hidden story.

Visit the Museum’s reception displays to see our Lambeth's pharmacy past display. Items on show include Lambeth delftware and stoneware made by Doulton, just some examples of how the potteries in the area supplied the growing chemical and pharmaceutical industries from the 1600s until the 1950s. Also see medicines prepared a mere stone’s throw from our headquarters, as well a copy of The Lancet from 1866 which reported on an investigation into health conditions at the Lambeth parish workhouse. You do not need to book to see this display.

Download our information sheet on Lambeth’s links with pharmacy

For group visits, we can offer guided Lambeth pharmacy walks (charge applies). We also offer an object handling session which allows you to get up close to some of the collections that illustrate to Lambeth’s pharmacy past. If would like to book either of these sessions, please contact us.

The image above, those used in the Lambeth pharmacy walk guide and the Lambeth's pharmacy past display case are all reproduced with kind permission of Lambeth Archives. To see more of their important collection of local images click here.