A Victorian marvel – Royal Doulton’s Lambeth’s headquarters

If you wander down an unremarkable side street in Lambeth you may spot a remarkable building that’s absolutely covered in decorative pottery.This is the former headquarters of the Lambeth Pottery – much better known as Royal Doulton, although at the time the firm was less regally known as Doulton & Co.
The firm was founded in 1815 in Vauxhall, and moved to Lambeth in 1882, slowly taking over several blocks of buildings next to the river. Initially the firm specialised in domestic