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=== Early modern === The area grew with an ever-increasing population at this time, many of whom were poor.<ref name="LambethWalk" /> As a result, Lambeth opened a parish [[workhouse]] in 1726. A parliamentary report of 1777 noted it had 270 inmates. In 1835 the Lambeth Poor Law Parish was formed. Run by an elected board of trustees, it comprised the parish of St Mary, Lambeth, "including the district attached to the new churches of St John, Waterloo, Kennington, Brixton, Norwood".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Lambeth/ |title=Lambeth (Parish of St Mary), Surrey, London |publisher=The history of the workhouse by Peter Higginbotham |access-date=25 November 2016}}</ref> Following in the tradition of earlier delftware manufacturers, the [[Royal Doulton]] Pottery company had their principal manufacturing site in Lambeth for several centuries.<ref name="WhiteHart" /> The Lambeth factory closed in 1956 and production was transferred to [[Staffordshire]]. However the Doulton offices, located on Black Prince Road still remain as they are a listed building, which includes the original decorative tiling.<ref name="WhiteHart" /> Between 1801 and 1831 the population of Lambeth trebled and in ten years alone between 1831 and 1841 it increased from 87,856 in to 105,883.<ref name="BritishHistory" /> The railway first came to Lambeth in the 1840s, as construction began which extended the [[London and South Western Railway]] from its original station at [[Nine Elms railway station|Nine Elms]] to the new terminus at [[London Waterloo railway station|London Waterloo]] via the newly constructed [[Nine Elms to Waterloo Viaduct]]. With the massive urban development of London in the 19th century and with the opening of the large Waterloo railway station in 1848 the locality around the station and Lower Marsh became known as [[Waterloo, London|Waterloo]], becoming an area distinct from Lambeth itself.<ref name="Mills" /> The Lambeth Ragged school was built in 1851 to help educate the children of destitute facilities, although the widening of the [[London and South Western Railway]] in 1904 saw the building reduced in size.<ref name="LambethWalk" /> Part of the school building still exists today and is occupied by the [[Beaconsfield (gallery)|Beaconsfield Gallery]].<ref name="LambethWalk" /> The Beaufoy Institute was also built in 1907 to provide technical education for the poor of the area, although this stopped being an educational institution at the end of the 20th century.<ref name="LambethWalk" />[[File:Westminster Bridge and Lambeth Bridge 1897.jpg|thumb|224x224px|Map of 1897, showing [[Lambeth Palace]] and [[Lambeth Bridge]]]]
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