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 Tachbrook Estate. The Westminster Housing Trust Ltd was responsible for the actual purchase of the land and building of the flats.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Pulford Street Site Committee
Commemorated ati
Tachbrook - Foundation
This stone was laid by the Rt Hon Sir Hilton Young, GBE, Minister of Health, ...
Tachbrook - Founders
Founders To commemorate the work of Lady Walston Chairman, the Rt Hon Sir Joh...
Other Subjects
Sutton Dwellings
In 1917 The Church Missionary Society sold its college in Upper Street and the building was replaced with Sutton's model dwellings.
Doreen (Dorrit) Collins
Sculptor, artist and co-founder with Eddy Renton of the charity Kith and Kids.
Anti-Slavery Society
First founded in Britain in 1823 as the 'Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions'. When slavery was abolished in British dominions the Society w...
first state-aided housing in Islington
Halton Mansions was the first state-aided scheme in Islington, built in 1922-3 with 168 flats in 3 four-storied blocks.
Elizabeth Finn
Born to missionary parents in Warsaw. Aged 72 she and her daughter Constance founded the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association. Died at home in Brook Green.