Founded as the Labourer's Friend Society by Lord Shaftesbury intending to improve working class conditions. It was keen on the provision of allotments. 1844 it changed its name to the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes.Incorporated by Royal Charter 1850. In 1959, the company became the 1830 Housing Society, which was taken over in 1965 by the Peabody Trust.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes
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Nottingham House
Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes incorporated b...
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Edith How-Martyn
Suffragist and birth control campaigner. Born Edith How in London. 1899 married George Herbert Martyn. Member of the Women's Social and Political Union. She was arrested in 1906 for attempting to ...
1 memorial
Shelter
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 Marti...
1 memorial
Improved Industrial Dwellings Co Ltd
Founded by Sir Sydney Waterlow.
3 memorials
Sir Alan Johnstone
Diplomat. Attended Eton, 1871-7. See his brother Francis for family information. Married an American heiress Antoinette Pinchot. His job took him to Denmark, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Luxemb...
1 memorial
Leysian Mission
From Wesley's Chapel and from Kay: The Leys School was opened in Cambridge in 1875; just two years after non-Anglicans were admitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It was intended to...
8 memorials
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Gatehouse Square, Southwark
SE1, Gatehouse Square, parking area to the south
The sculpture is titled "Great Oaks from Little Acorns". From PMSA:"... holding her hands over an acorn which rests on the top of the wa...
3 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Nelson's column
WC2, Trafalgar Square
Erected to commemorate the Trafalgar victory over Napoleon of 1805. The height, from top of hat to pavement is said to be 170 feet and 2 ...
2 subjects commemorated,
8 creators
1 memorial
BBC - WC2
WC2, Savoy Place, 2
This plaque is on the front of this building, over to the left (out of our picture) in the mirror position of the foundation stone. Newl...
1 subject commemorated
Myddelton Square - WW2 bomb
EC1, Myddelton Square, 43-53
43 - 53 Myddelton Square Destroyed by enemy action on 11th January 1941. Rebuilt 1947 - 1948 by The New River Company.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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