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...
Telemark on the left, Coates on the right. At the far right of our picture you can see London Transport's Lost Property Office. Useful t...
At the back of this house, accessed from Lettice Road, to the left of our photo is a building "Turners Studio". It looks new but is presu...
William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-1863), novelist, lived here, 1854-1862. L.C.C.
The house was known as Water House when the Morrises moved in, after the death of the father of the family. Frank Lloyd (Edward's son) g...
The plaque is on the east side of the bridge, at about the mid point.
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