Founded by John and Lewis Burtt. Described by Charles Booth as a "soup kitchen and refuge for the poor". Janet Seale wrote to us in 2013: "I used to attend Sunday School at Hoxton Market Christian Mission - Miss Breach was the teacher in the very early sixties - anyone else have any memories of this time?"
2018: via Facebook Gordon Porter provided this useful link.
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Hoxton Market Christian Mission
London Borough of Hackney Lewis "Daddy" Burtt, 1860 - 1935, John Burtt, 1855...
Campaigner for gender and social justice. Born in Jamaica. 1914 met Garvey, joined the Universal Negro Improvement Association and became a Pan-Africanist campaigner. Moved to the US in 1918 wher...
Person, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Jamaica, USA
This group campaigns for an independent UN-led investigation into allegations of widespread sexual violence by South Korean soldiers during the Vietnam War. The group commissioned the Mother and Ch...
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...
From English Heritage: "... founded in 1875 by Mary Townsend as an Anglican organisation that offered care and support to such women, through seven 'lodges' across west London, in areas like Ealing...
Not to be confused with the splendid Trinity Green Almshouses which were more almshouses also run by Trinity House. The almshouses were built on land given by Sir Richard Browne, Master of the Cor...
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