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...
Bill Brandt, 1904 - 1983, photogapher lived here. English Heritage
London Borough of Barnet Mark Lemon, co-founder and first editor of "Punch", lived in this house 1817 to 1823.
Near this spot at 62 Fore Street on the 29th January 1850 was born Sir Ebenezer Howard, founder of the Garden City Movement. The Corporat...
The WW2 plaque is very high up on the wall behind the arches and can only be read from a zoomed-in photo. The naming is confusing. This ...
See Anne Boleyn's plaque for when/how this plaque was displayed.
Given that the garden behind this wall was part of the graveyard around New Gravel Pit Chapel we think these names might have been record...
Pilot Officer Luke Elbert Allen was born on 27 December 1917 in Las Animas, Bent, Colorado, USA, the second of the five children of Frank Wilson Allen (1897-1934) and Eugie Mae Allen née Fulbright ...
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