Housing action trusts were non-departmental public bodies, set up to redevelop some of the poorest council housing estates in England's inner-city suburbs.
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Tower Hamlets Housing Action Trust
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Roman Road - Iceni Court
Site of the Roman road built by the Romans c. AD43 Unveiled by Chris Mullin M...
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2 memorials
Wallingford House
In 1560 Sir Francis Knollys leased the land where the Old Admiralty Building now stands to build a house which later became known as Wallingford House. In 1622 George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, ...
1 memorial
Bartram House
This Georgian house was on The Green, Hampstead, in an area now occupied by the west-most part of the Hampstead Royal Free Hospital. It was Sir Rowland Hill's home for 30 years, during which time S...
2 memorials
Tudor House
There seems to be confusion between this building on St Leonard’s Street, demolished c.1900, and Bromley Hall, which is still extant on the Blackwall Tunnel Approach Road. The normally very trustwo...
1 memorial
Southern Housing Group
Initially the Samuel Lewis Housing Trust, set up after the death of the founder in 1901. Their first housing development was in Liverpool Road, Islington. From their website: "As one of southern E...
3 memorials
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Joseph Brodsky
Russian-American poet and essayist. US Nobel Prize Laureate. Born Leningrad. Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972, he settled in the USA, aided by W. H. Auden and others. There he taught and was ap...
1 memorial
George Nissel
NW1, Siddons Lane
This plaque, on the right flank wall of the red brick building, was unveiled on the same day as the Dallos plaque. The building which h...
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Highgate Cemetery - Fire - R03 - Stiles
N6, Swain's Lane, Highgate Cemetery
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
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War dead, WW1
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Surrey Docks
The south bank of the Thames used to be in Surrey, now in Southwark. The first dock created here in 1696 was initially named Howland Great Wet Dock and then Greenland Dock due to the whaling ships ...
10 memorials
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