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...
Mill lived at this address, 1837 - 1851, with his mother and sister.
This plaque is on a very dull building next door to the actual site of the Physicians' building, now occupied by the splendid 1888 red br...
Frank Matcham (1854 - 1920) theatre architect, designed this theatre. Frank Matcham Society
English Heritage Simon Bolivar, 1783 - 1830, liberator of Latin America, lodged here in 1810.
The Listing entry gives: "Artists' studios, now flats. 1885-6 with 1891 Annexe. John C P Higgs and Frank Rudkin, architects. Red Brick wi...
This monument is in Lincoln's Inn Square garden, opposite the building at number 20.
Bill Wallis is described on the plaque as 'ARP Stretcher Bearer'. Which we take as a prompt to provide a link to the great Stretcher Rail...
"No greater honour..etc." is surely a quotation but we cannot source it.
The WW1 memorial plaque is above the entrance, with the names listed on two panels, one either side of the entrance, set at an angle. The...
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