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
Commemorated ati
Nottingham House
Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes incorporated b...
Other Subjects
Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl Meath, KP
Born near Belgrave Square. The Earl of Meath was actively engaged in social and philanthropic work. He was the first chairman of the Young Men's Friendly Society, first President of the British Col...
1 memorial
Guinness Trust / Guinness Partnership
From the Picture source: "In 1890 Sir Edward Guinness set up The Guinness Trust, donating £200,000 to the Trust in London, with an additional £50,000 for the Dublin Fund, which later became the Ive...
1 memorial
Toynbee Housing Society
Toynbee Housing Association (which we guess is its new name) was created out of activities at Toynbee Hall.
1 memorial
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
Rosehaugh Stanhope self-build housing initiative for the unemployed
Rosehaugh Stanhope Developments was responsible for a number of high-profile developments in the City, such as Broadgate. The Independent's 1992 report on the failure of the Rosehaugh company descr...
1 memorial
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Clapham Junction rail disaster
SW18, Spencer Park
The shape of the monument suggests a railway carriage cut in two. 2020:Wikipedia names the sculptor as Richard Healy and we are informed...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sir Alfred Munnings - Glebe Place
SW3, Glebe Place, 65
A local resident said that this plaque (and the one next door, to William McMillan) is spurious and was erected by developers purely to b...
1 subject commemorated
Rifleman Frederic Thomas Atkinson
Frederic Thomas Atkinson was born in Crewkerne, Somerset, the sixth of the nine children of William Joseph Atkinson (1859-1903) and Selina Atkinson née Lowman (1860-1911). His birth was registered ...
War dead, WW1
2 memorials
Richmal Crompton
BR2, Oakley Road, The Glebe
Richmal Crompton, authoress, lived here, 1928 - 1954. Bromley the London Borough
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Caesar's Camp 1
SE19, Camp Road
The smaller plaque is between the two posts on the right of the photograph.
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
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