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Shelter

Categories: Social Welfare

A charity that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing in England and Scotland. Founded by Bruce Kenrick it evolved out of the work on behalf of homeless people being carried on at St Martin-in-the-Fields and was also spurred by the public outcry following transmission of the B.B.C. television play 'Cathy Come Home', which dealt with the problems of homelessness.

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Shelter

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Bruce Kenrick

Bruce Kenrick, 1920 - 2007, founder of Notting Hill Housing Trust and Shelter...

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Tolpuddle Martyrs

Tolpuddle Martyrs

6 Dorset farm labourers, transported to Australia for joining a trade union. Following mass protests against their treatment the government was forced to give pardons and eventually after 2 years, ...

Group, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare, Australia

2 memorials
Air Raid Precautions (ARP)

Air Raid Precautions (ARP)

In WW2 each local council was responsible for setting up the local ARP to protect civilians from air raids. ARP Wardens were important members, enforcing the blackout, sounding the alarms, etc.

Group, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Violet Alice Tritton

Violet Alice Tritton

From PMSA:   "... worked for many years at the Dockhead branch of the Time and Talents Association. The Association had two premises in Abbey Street, No. 79, from 1913-41, and No. 225 (Dockhead Hou...

Person, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Tower Hamlets Community Housing Ltd

Tower Hamlets Community Housing Ltd

THCH is a charitable housing provider managing over 3,000 homes exclusively in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Established in 2000 as part of a Government programme to transfer housing from lo...

Group, Social Welfare

24 memorials
Anti-Slavery Society

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...

Group, Race Issues, Social Welfare

1 memorial

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William Alexander Robertson

William Alexander Robertson

Elder brother to Laurance Grant and Norman Cairns. Left a lot of money in his will to the National Trust to commemorate his brothers. The money was used to buy Sutton House and eight areas of count...

Person, Benefactor

1 memorial
King George V

King George V

Reigned: 1910 - 1936.  Born third in line to the throne, after his father (who became King Edward VII) and his elder brother Prince Albert Victor, who died early.  Crowned on 22 June 1911. Married ...

Person, Royalty, Seriously Famous

50 memorials
T. E. Collcutt

T. E. Collcutt

Architect. Born Thomas Edward Collcutt, in Jericho, Oxford. President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1906 to 1908. He designed the Imperial Institute building in Kensington, the ...

Person, Architecture, Theatre

1 memorial
A. Brant
War dead, WW1
1 memorial