From the Irish Times: "In the grim 1950s, 40,000 people left Ireland every year to emigrate to Britain. They built the roads and repaired the bombed out buildings of post-war Britain. They staffed the hospitals, the factories and the railways of a booming country while the economy stagnated at Ireland. It is estimated that half of all Irish people born in the 1930s emigrated, the large majority to Britain."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Irish immigrants
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The Forgotten Irish
The Forgotten Irish In commemoration of that generation of post World War II ...
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Hoxton Market Christian Mission
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 ...
1 memorial
United Westminster Almshouses
A scheme of the Charity Commissioners dated 11 July 1879 consolidated the separate almshouses in Westminster founded by James Palmer, Nicholas Butler and Emery Hill, into the United Westminster Alm...
2 memorials
Sir Edwin Chadwick
Born Lancashire but brought up in London. A friend of Jeremy Bentham, Bentham dying in his arms. Chadwick's major achievement was the 1842 publication of the Poor Law Commissioners' "Report on the ...
1 memorial
Mr Robert S. Watlin
Administrator and Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
1 memorial
Daylight Saving Time
The idea of adjusting clocks in order to benefit from daylight was first proposed in New Zealand in 1895, and was first implemented by Germany and her allies in WW1 (to save coal). William Willett...
1 memorial