Editing Lambeth (section)

=== Modern ===
[[Lambeth Walk]] and Lambeth High Street were the two principal commercial streets of Lambeth, but today are predominantly residential in nature. Lambeth Walk was site of a market for many years, which by 1938 had 159 shops, including 11 butchers.<ref name=BBC1>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3651455.stm |title=Streets of London: Lambeth Walk |date=24 May 2004 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=26 November 2016}}</ref> The street and surrounding roads, like most of Lambeth, were extensively damaged in the [[Second World War]].<ref name=BBC1/> This included the destruction of the Victorian Swimming Baths (built in 1897) in 1945, when a [[V2 Rocket]] hit the street, resulting in the deaths of 37 people.<ref name=Vauxhall4>{{cite web |url=http://vauxhallhistory.org/lambeth-baths/ |title=Lambeth Baths |publisher=Vauxhall History Online Archives |access-date=26 November 2016}}</ref>

In 1948, when the first wave of immigrants of Afro-Caribbean descent arrived from Jamaica on the [[HMT Empire Windrush|Windrush]] cruise ship, they were housed in several areas within Brixton, especially [[Clapham]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Diakite |first=Parker |date=2019-02-27 |title=The Brixton Pound: London's Historically Black Neighborhood Creates Own Currency |url=https://travelnoire.com/the-brixton-pound-london-black-neighborhood-own-currency |access-date=2022-06-15 |website=Travel Noire |language=en}}</ref> The [[Royal Pharmaceutical Society|Royal Pharmaceutical Society's headquarters]] were located in Lambeth High Street from 1976 until 2015.<ref name="RoyalPharm">{{cite web |title=Pharmacy History and Lambeth |url=http://www.rpharms.com/our-museum/pharmacy-history-and-lambeth.asp |access-date=25 November 2016 |publisher=[[Royal Pharmaceutical Society]]}}</ref>

Today, the center of government in [[Brixton]] has a strong Afro-Caribbean community. Other significant minorities include Africans, South Asians, and Chinese; they make up one third of Lambeth's population.<ref name=":0" /> The borough is a very densely populated area within London with a large young population. One third of its working age population are considered living in poverty. Lambeth ranks 8th out of 22 of the most deprived boroughs in London.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=State of the Borough 2016 |url=https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/State%20of%20Borough%202016%20-%20v3.pdf |website=lambeth.gov.uk |page=5}}</ref>