Ada House
This block was built in 1937 by the London County Council and was named after Ada Place in which the block is situated; which in turn had been named after Ada Lewis the wife of the founder of Samuel Lewis Housing Association which is now known as The Southern Housing Group.
Tower Hamlets Community Housing THCH
E2, Pritchard's Road, Ada House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Ada House
Initially the Samuel Lewis Housing Trust, set up after the death of the found...
Ada Hannah Lewis-Hill, philanthropist. Born Liverpool but brought up in a lar...
Moneylender and philanthropist. A jew, born in a slum in Birmingham, who work...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Ada House
THCH is a charitable housing provider managing over 3,000 homes exclusively i...
{On the plaque to the right of the door:} Orange Street Congregational Church This Church was founded in 1693 by Huguenot refugees who ...
The ACLL plaque is on the wall to the left, hidden by the wall-mounted No Entry sign. Note: despite their appearance, neither of these t...
Adjoining this spot stood the Stocks Market, 1282 - 1737. Corporation of the City of London
Stevie Smith, 1902 - 1971, poet, lived here 1906 - 1971. English Heritage
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906 - 1945, theologian and pastor, lived here, 1933 - 1935. Borough of Lewisham Presented by The International Bonh...
