Place    To 1967

St Anne's Court

Categories: Social Welfare

Countries: France, Switzerland

Place

Haven for political refugees from France and Switzerland and, in modern times, from Eastern Europe.

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St Anne's Court

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Clarion House

Clarion House stands on an historic site in St Anne's Court which passed from...

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Kensington Housing Trust / Catalyst Housing

Kensington Housing Trust / Catalyst Housing

Started as Ealing Family Housing Association.

Group, Property, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Ronald William Godfrey Jones, B.E.M.

Ronald William Godfrey Jones, B.E.M.

Footballer. A serving soldier n WW2, he was taken prisoner and sent to a camp in Italy. He volunteered to be an engineer, but found himself being sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. Here he witne...

Person, Armed Forces, Social Welfare, Sport / Games, Wales

1 memorial
Family Planning Association

Family Planning Association

Founded by Doctor Charles Vickery Drysdale as the National Birth Control Council, formed by the merger of five birth control societies. Name changed to the National Birth Control Association in 193...

Group, Social Welfare

1 memorial
John Howard

John Howard

Prison reformer. Born Hackney. Travelled throughout the UK and then further afield investigating the state of welfare in prisons and doing what he could to improve it. Died in Kherson in the Ukrain...

Person, Social Welfare, Ukraine

2 memorials
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st Baronet)

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st Baronet)

MP, brewer, slave abolitionist and social reformer. Born Essex. Entered the Brick Lane brewery Truman, Hanbury & Company in 1808, eventually taking on sole ownership. 1807 married Hannah Gurney...

Person, Commerce, Food & Drink, Race Issues, Social Welfare

3 memorials

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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

279 memorials