The first university settlement house. Founded by Samuel and Henrietta Barnett. The idea was that the educated rich should live close to the poor and thus change society for the better. The Guild and School of Handicraft started life here in 1888.
Spitalfields Life have a good post about Toynbee Hall with lots of pictures.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Toynbee Hall
Our picture comes from Google satellite view and shows, better than can be se...
Toynbee Housing Society Evershed House Community - Opened on September 23rd 1...
Toynbee Hall Gatehouse Inaugurated by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Harold...
Administrator of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862. Listed as "The Hon. and Revd. R. Henley - Incumbent" on the Pest House plaque. Vicar of St Mary's Putney in 1886.
Otherwise known as the Elizabeth Fry Institute for Reformation of Women Prisoners. JaneAusten (don't ask) gives some information; to quote: "Following {Fry's} death in 1845, a meeting chaired by t...
Nonconformist minister. Born Whitechapel. Minister at Kingston, Bermondsey and then the Orange Street Chapel. 1807 co-founder of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in Old Kent Road, which he part...
Spitalfields has experienced a number of waves of immigration from other countries, often driven from home due to difficult or dangerous conditions. The French Huguenots escaping religious persecut...
President of the British Women's Temperance Association , 1890 - 1903, founded of the first industrial farm for inebriate women and set up a home for training workhouse children. Born in London as...
