Lambeth
Lambeth is the quietest of Syndicate's boroughs, a stretch of low houses, markets and works on the south bank across from Westminster. The Templar Cletus Strain runs it in 1868, and it is home to Lambeth Palace and the Lambeth Asylum, where several major memories take place.
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Good to know
- Templar overseer: Cletus Strain.
- Templar Hunts: Martin Church, the Lambeth Bullies and the Fletchers.
- Blighter strongholds: Battersea Bellows and Echostreet Alley.
- Bounty Hunts: Leopold Bacchus, Mildred Graves and Jesse Butler.
- One factory to liberate: Strain & Boil.
- Discs 5, 6, 8 and 19 of the Secrets of London are found in Lambeth music boxes.
What the borough is like
The London page calls it the most rural part of the city, with small houses and market places rather than towers and offices. Alexander Graham Bell's house is also in the borough.
Liberating Lambeth
Clear Strain's Templars, both strongholds, the bounties and the factory, then answer his challenge. The messenger warns that he is a sadistic man. Strain joins the brawl once enough of his Blighters fall, and killing him in Gang War: Lambeth puts the borough under Rook control.
The asylum
Lambeth Asylum is where Jacob hunts Dr. John Elliotson in the memory Overdose after tracing Starrick's Soothing Syrup with Charles Darwin. Evie and Clara O'Dea return there in The Lady with the Lamp to find a cure with Florence Nightingale's help.
Return in 1888
The asylum is also the setting for the closing chapter of the Jack the Ripper expansion, including the memories Family Reunion and Live by the Creed, Die by the Creed.
- Family ReunionFamily Reunion is the ninth Jack the Ripper memory: you play as Jack inside Lambeth Asylum, killing the staff who remember him as a child patient and burning the records of his stay before Evie arrives.
- Live by the Creed, Die by the CreedLive by the Creed, Die by the Creed is the final memory of the Jack the Ripper DLC: Evie sneaks into Lambeth Asylum, follows Jack's messages down to the basement and faces him in a boss fight that rewards stealth over brawling.
OverdoseOverdose is the assassination of Dr John Elliotson inside Lambeth Asylum. As Jacob you explore the asylum, help a trapped nurse and stop a brutal electroshock session, then reach Elliotson's lecture theatre by hiding under the sheet of a cadaver.- The Lady with the LampThe Lady with the Lamp brings Evie back to Lambeth after the asylum's closure. When Clara O'Dea collapses at the asylum doors, Florence Nightingale takes her in and gives Evie a list of medicines to fetch from a peddler and a besieged pharmacist.
- An Artful PlanAn Artful Plan is the last Charles Dickens memory and the end of John Hammon's story from The Darwin and Dickens Conspiracy. Hammon wants you to kidnap his fiancée Bella Wilton at Waterloo station so he can rescue her in a staged fight in Lambeth.
- Battersea BellowsBattersea Bellows is a Lambeth gang stronghold that Cletus Strain built on a stretch of industrial land once full of housing. Kill the leader undetected and free the captured Rooks for full sync, then claim it for the Rooks.
- Echostreet AlleyEchostreet Alley is a Lambeth gang stronghold under Cletus Strain, named for the screech of trains at Waterloo station echoing through its backstreets. Burn the Blighter heist plans and free the captured Rooks for full sync.
- Gang War: LambethThe Lambeth gang war is your showdown with Cletus Strain's Blighters for control of the borough. The messenger warns that Strain is a bit sadistic; defeat his gang and then Strain to take Lambeth.
- Jesse ButlerJesse Butler is a Lambeth bounty hunt for a newly rich heir who squeezes rent out of the borough's poor for Cletus Strain's foremen. Kidnap him from his Blighter crew and take him to Abberline alive.
- Leopold BacchusLeopold Bacchus is a Lambeth bounty hunt for an escaped jewel thief hiding in the sewers under the borough. Track him underground, kidnap him and deliver him to Abberline alive.
- Martin ChurchMartin Church is a Lambeth Templar hunt: a condemned Templar who escaped prison weeks before his hanging and is hiding at Lambeth Palace under Blighter guard. Kill him with the hidden blade for full sync.
- Mildred GravesMildred Graves is a Lambeth bounty: the indebted sister of Westminster gang leader Lilla Graves, who works at a Lambeth cemetery and has been burying Lilla's victims without death certificates. Kidnap her and bring her to Abberline alive.
- Spring-Heeled JackSpring-Heeled Jack is the first of Charles Dickens's London Stories: Dickens enrols the Frye twins in the Ghost Club and sends you to Lambeth to find the so-called demon attacking people there. You question victims, follow his tracks to a guarded warehouse and clear it out.
- The Final ShowdownThe Final Showdown is the last Last Maharaja memory: Duleep Singh decides to draw out the man behind the attacks by picking a fight with the Templars and arranging a night meeting in Lambeth Cemetery. Jacob handles the brawl, then Evie guards Duleep at the meeting.
- The FletchersThe Fletchers is a Lambeth Templar hunt against Josephine and Francis Fletcher, a seemingly kindly couple who take children off the streets and ship them out of the city to be trained as Blighter soldiers. Double assassinate them for full sync.
- The Lambeth BulliesThe Lambeth Bullies is a Templar hunt in Lambeth against Ada and Clyde Cobleigh, a brother-and-sister pair hired to keep order who instead go on killing sprees. Take them both out before they kill more than two civilians.
- Battersea BellowsBattersea Bellows is a Blighter stronghold in Lambeth, one of two in the borough. Henry Green points the twins at it, and clearing it out hands the site to the Rooks and loosens Cletus Strain's grip on Lambeth.
- Echostreet AlleyEchostreet Alley is one of Cletus Strain's two Blighter strongholds in Lambeth, built near Waterloo station. Liberating it gives the Rooks another foothold south of the river.
- Lambeth AsylumLambeth Asylum is a fictional mental hospital in Lambeth, funded by the Templars in 1868 and the setting for some of Syndicate's darkest memories. Jacob kills Dr. Elliotson here, Evie and Clara seek a cure here, and the Jack the Ripper story ends here.
- Lambeth PalaceLambeth Palace is the Archbishop of Canterbury's residence in Lambeth. In 1868 the escaped Templar Martin Church hides here, and his Templar Hunt sends you inside to finish him.
- Secret of London #05Secret of London #05 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in Lambeth. Open it and you take disc #05, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that claims to know more than Apollo and to see the stars weeping in a wounded sky.
- Secret of London #06Secret of London #06 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in Lambeth. Open it and you take disc #06, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that pairs the moon embracing her shepherd with the queen of love and her warrior.
- Secret of London #08Secret of London #08 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in Lambeth. Open it and you take disc #08, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that paints life in the lofts of Bedlam: straw for a bed, chains, whips and plenty of hunger.
- Secret of London #19Secret of London #19 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in Lambeth. Open it and you take disc #19, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that spares gentle folk but warns anyone who crosses Tom.
Related places
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Waterloo station
Waterloo station is a busy Southwark terminus on the south bank. In End of the Line, Jacob goes there to take back the engines and kill Pearl Attaway.
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The Thames
The Thames is the seventh borough of Syndicate's London: the river itself, its boats and its bridges. The Templar Edith Swinebourne controls it in 1868, and you win it the same way as the land boroughs, but there are no strongholds or factories to clear.