Lambeth Landmark, the fast way into Lambeth Archives image collection.
Lambeth Landmark showcases 16,500 of the best images from Lambeth Archives’ collections of photographs, drawings, prints, watercolours, maps and documents. You can find historic and contemporary pictures of Lambeth’s streets, buildings, people, communities and personalities as well as records of its events and disasters. High quality photographic prints are available of most images from the site which cover Waterloo through Brixton and Clapham to Streatham and Norwood.
The images featured on this page are from the archive of Manning Photographers, founded in the 1940s by James Manning who was later joined by his son Frank. The studio operated from 1952 onwards in Windmill Row, Kennington, closing in 2022. It is one the largest surviving photographic studio archives in London, containing approximately 500,000 images.
If you have any comments or corrections about images on this website please email archives@lambeth.gov.uk or phone 0207 926 6076.