WHEN the fire alarm goes off at the Lambeth headquarters of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, visitors and staff must leave the building and assemble in a little park a short way along Lambeth High Street. This recreation ground has a long history, mainly as a cemetery. In 1703 the small graveyard surrounding the church of St-Mary-at-Lambeth - across Lambeth Road from the Society - had become so overcrowded that the Archbishop of Canterbury bought a plot of land for ￡120 and gave to it the church as an extra burial space.
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