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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hoxton Market Christian Mission
London Borough of Hackney Lewis "Daddy" Burtt, 1860 - 1935, John Burtt, 1855...
Wrote the forward to the 1942 biography of Octavia Hill by E. Moberly Bell. The Improved Tenements Association was set up in 1900. From The London Journal: "As a concession to the societies, and t...
Philanthropist and shipowner. Born 27 Bedford North Street, Liverpool. On his father's death he took control of the family shipping business and extended it to include steamships. Following his inv...
A charity run entirely by volunteers, which each week records local news taken from the Sutton Guardian, for blind and visually impaired people in the Borough of Sutton.
Born Priscilla Bell in Tottenham. Quaker philanthropist and author of feminist economics, scientific subjects, travel, children's non-fiction. Best known book was 'The Juvenile Travellers' which ha...
Person, Children, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare
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...
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