Tenant activist. Lived on the Studley Estate in Stockwell for 47 years, and helped a number of estates to transfer to being run by housing associations, along with investment from the Labour government in 1998. Subsequently became the vice-chair of the Hyde Southbank Housing (HSH) Association board.
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Elsie Naisbett MBE
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Elsie Naisbett
Elsie Naisbett MBE, 22nd September 1926 - 3rd December 2009. This memorial pl...
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Pulford Street Site Committee
The Pulford Street Site Fund was responsible for raising the resources necessary, mainly from Westminster residents, with grants from the Ministry of Health and Westminster Council, to build the Ta...
Immigration to Spitalfields
Spitalfields has experienced a number of waves of immigration from other countries, often driven from home due to difficult or dangerous conditions. The French Huguenots escaping religious persecut...
Susan Lawrence
Politician and social reformer. Born as Arabella Susan Lawrence.
Brent House Salvation Army maternity home
The Hackney Society says: 'Brent House, at 27-9 Devonshire Road (now Brenthouse Road) … was the Salvation Army’s first receiving home in Hackney. It opened in 1889 and was described as "a home for ...
The Children's Fold
A Barnardo's home, also referred to as Sheppard's House. It was established around 1887 at 182 Grove Road, E3. Its address is sometimes given as 180 Grove Road, so may have expanded into the neighb...
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Misha Anker
One of a list of 26 researchers involved in researching Hester Leggatt's background.
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Metropolitan Police
Founded in 1829 by Robert Peel under the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 and on 26 September of that year, over 1,000 men were sworn in in the grounds of the Foundling Hospital. (From Sarah Wise's boo...
New Zealand Company
Formed to establish British settlements in New Zealand. 5 May 1839 despatched the survey ship Tory to begin the colonisation of New Zealand on the Wakefield Plan.
Norwegian Government-in-exile
The Norwegian government and parliament refused to accept a German ultimatum to form a new government under Nazi control. King Haakon VII and his son Crown Prince Olav were forced to leave Norway a...
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