The company was established in 1785 with works in north Lambeth and became part of the publicly owned Metropolitan Water Board in 1904.
The Company expanded to supply Kennington in 1802 and about this time replaced its wooden pipes with iron ones.
[1] In 1832 the company built a reservoir at Streatham Hill, and then obtained the Lambeth Waterworks Act 1834 (4 & 5 Will.
The facilities were completed in 1852, and the Lambeth was joined there taking advantage of its pipes to the city by the Chelsea Waterworks Company.
[5] However the inlets pumped in too much silt with the water because of turbulence caused by the discharge (confluence) of the River Mole/Ember and The Rythe into the Thames immediately upstream.