Established in the East End as the Bedford Institute Association to act on Education, Religious Effort, Moral Training, and Relief of the sick and destitute. Named for the Quaker silk merchant and philanthropist, Peter Bedford.
1893 they were given Hoxton Hall in William Isaac Palmer's will. 1998 renamed as Quaker Social Action and a new 99-year lease on Hoxton Hall was issued.
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Bedford Institute / Quaker Social Action
Hoxton Hall. Built 1863 as a music hall. Owned since 1893 by Bedford Institu...
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Bedford Institute / Quaker Social Action
Joseph Allen Baker MP laid this memorial stone on behalf of the Bedford Insti...
School in Hayes, in the Borough of Hillingdon at which George Orwell taught from 1932 - 1933. He is top right in the photograph.
Nursery nurse. She worked for over forty years at Christ Church School, in Brick Lane, Spitalfields, (the area in which she grew up and lived herself). A popular character, remembered by many for h...
Philanthropist, feminist, educationist. Born Rose Mary Yeates in Horton, Buckinghamshire, to William Willson Yeates and his first wife Mary. When she was seven three of her baby sisters died in qui...
Workhouses.org informs that schools for children on Sundays probably happened earlier but the movement started in 1780 when Robert Raikes opened a school in Gloucester.
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