Group    From 1669 

Commissioners of Sewers

Categories: Social Welfare

The City of London was well in advance of other parts of London when it came to sewerage.

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Commissioners of Sewers

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St Olave, Silver Street - road widened

St. Olave’s Silver Street. This churchyard was thrown back and the road widen...

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Chelsea Temperance Society

Chelsea Temperance Society

Founded 1837 with Sydney Hall in Pond Place. At Exciting we learn "In about 1906 they published a set of cards showing their original Sydney Hall and vacant site nearby at the southern apex of Bury...

Group, Social Welfare

6 memorials
Anti-Slavery Society

Anti-Slavery Society

First founded in Britain in 1823 as the 'Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions'. When slavery was abolished in British dominions the Society w...

Group, Race Issues, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Almshouse Association

Almshouse Association

The Almshouse Association was formed in 1946 at a meeting held in the Chapter House of Southwark Cathedral. Initially restricted to London, in 1950 it went national. The objects of the Association...

Group, Community / Clubs, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Committee and Friends of the United Kingdom Band of Hope Union

Committee and Friends of the United Kingdom Band of Hope Union

Hope UK is a Christian charity based in London which educates children and young people about drug and alcohol abuse. Local meetings started in Leeds with the objective to teach children the impor...

Group, Children, Education, Food & Drink, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Reverend James Palmer

Reverend James Palmer

In 1656 he founded almshouses in Palmer’s Passage for six poor old men and six poor old women together with a school for the education of twenty boys. Old maps show these almshouses running most of...

Person, Religion, Social Welfare

2 memorials