WATER LAMBETH : FROM LAMBETH ARCHIVES

3 Sep-23 Oct 2015

Overview

As part of the Lambeth Heritage Festival Morley Gallery shows 'Water Lambeth'. Lambeth is defined by water: the Thames between Broad Wall and Nine Elms makes its northern boundary, while Lambeth’s ‘other’ river, the Effra, flows through the borough from Norwood to Vauxhall like a secret watery spine. Taking these rivers as its frame, this exhibition juxtaposes paintings, photographs, museum objects and maps from Lambeth Archives alongside the work of contemporary photographers to document the vanished medieval village of ‘Water Lambeth', the riverside Doulton pottery works that closed in the 1950s and the hidden course of the Effra.