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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Canon Samuel Barnett

Canon Samuel Barnett

Social reformer. While curate of St Mary's in Bryanston Square, met Henrietta Barnett and married her in his own church. The site given as the picture source is a forum where the infamous Jack the...

Person, Jack the Ripper suspects, Religion, Social Welfare

2 memorials
Cleveland Street Workhouse

Cleveland Street Workhouse

Created with an Act of Parliament in 1775, initially for the parish of St Paul in Covent Garden, this is the most intact example of an 18th century workhouse institution left standing in London. Jo...

Building, Medicine, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Swan Housing Association

Swan Housing Association

Established in the 1990s. As at 2025 Swan Housing Association is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sanctuary.

Group, Property, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Robert Browning Settlement

Robert Browning Settlement

Inspired by East End schemes such as Toynbee Hall, this Settlement was established by Francis Herbert Stead (1857 – 1928, brother of W. T. Stead).  Francis was Congregationalist minister at York St...

Group, Philanthropy, Religion, Social Welfare

2 memorials
Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes

Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes

Founded as the Labourer's Friend Society by Lord Shaftesbury intending to improve working class conditions. It was keen on the provision of allotments. 1844 it changed its name to the Society for I...

Group, Social Welfare

1 memorial

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Bankers Clearing House - 6

Bankers Clearing House - 6

EC4, Lombard Street, Post Office Court

At the north end of Post Office Court, attached to the west wall adjoining St Mary Woolnoth, are six salvaged carved panels. We have numb...

3 subjects commemorated
Cox & Sons
1 memorial
Red Cross Street

Red Cross Street

Used to run from the Beech Street / Golden Lane junction, where there was a red cross, due south to St Giles Cripplegate at Fore Street.   Londonist have found a map that shows the Barbican overlai...

Place, Transport

1 memorial
George Ansell
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lillian Lenton

Lillian Lenton

Suffrage campaigner and hunger striker.

Person, Gender Issues

1 memorial