Group    From 1898 

Octavia Housing

Categories: Property, Social Welfare

Not-for-profit organisation with a strong track record in social housing and providing care services. Originated as Horace Street Trust and became a model for many subsequent housing associations. We believe this is the same organisation that used to be known as 'Octavia Foundation' and 'Octavia Hill Housing Trust'.

The Rowe Housing Trust, based in Notting Hill, merged with Octavia Housing, before 1971 we think, and for a time the organisation was known as the Octavia Hill & Rowe Housing Trust.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Octavia Housing

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Gable Cottages

Octavia Hill Housing Association, Gable Cottages, renovated 1970 - 1971.

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Octavia Hill Housing Trust

It would be nice to know who did the giving but we can't find out.

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Octavia Housing

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Amy Garvey

Amy lived here for 26 years. Unveiled by Jamaica's High Commissioner to the ...

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Octavia Hill - NW1

Octavia Hill, a pioneer in housing reform built these cottages "for the peopl...

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Red Cross Garden 2

The roundel was created by a glass-making firm, James Powell and Son, after a...

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Sir Reginald Rowe

Dedicated to Sir Reginald Rowe, 1868 - 1945. Octavia Hill and Rowe Housing Tr...

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Jeffrey Morgan

Jeffrey Morgan

Building houses in Islington in 1824.

Person, Property

1 memorial
J. Roy Lancaster

J. Roy Lancaster

We have discovered two facts about a John Roy Lancaster: In 1911 he was working for Messrs. Horne & Co, Auctioneers and Surveyors of 85 Gresham Street, and of 35 Old Queen Street, involved in ...

Person, Politics & Administration, Property

1 memorial
The Page Estate

The Page Estate

Housing Estate in Eltham.  Inaugurated by the then Minister of Health, Christopher Addison. The photograph is an aerial view of the estate taken in 1931.

Group, Property

1 memorial
Lieutenant Commander James Dawbarn Young, R.N.V.R.

Lieutenant Commander James Dawbarn Young, R.N.V.R.

Qualified as surveyor and then as a lawyer.  Public spirited and worked with the Claremont Central Mission (we think this was a nationwide religious charitable organisation working with young peopl...

Person, Armed Forces, Law, Property, Belgium

War dead, WW1
3 memorials
Nathaniel Acton

Nathaniel Acton

Nathaniel Acton was a wealthy successful Suffolk landowner. British History Online describes the land he owned in and around Shoreditch, stretching into Hackney and Bethnal Green. The painting is b...

Person, Property

1 memorial

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Anne Richards

Anne Richards

Married to John Richards, mother to Frederick Richards (their only son?). Buried in St Paul's churchyard. Dr Hugh Field-Richards, great-grandson of Frederick Field-Richards, has kindly allowed us ...

Person, Friend / family

1 memorial
London County Council

London County Council

Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a la...

Group, Politics & Administration

281 memorials
Sidney Lewis

Sidney Lewis

Soldier. He enlisted in the East Surrey Regiment in August 1915 at the age of twelve, and fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, then aged thirteen. In the 106th Machine Gun Company of the Mach...

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Austria, France

1 memorial
Essex Hall foundation stone

Essex Hall foundation stone

WC2, Essex Street, Essex Hall

More information about the creation of the building at The Story of Essex Hall. The foundation stone is below the Essex Street & Ess...

1 creator
Anne Morkill

Anne Morkill

One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

Person, Children

1 memorial