The first university settlement house. Founded by Samuel and Henrietta Barnett. The idea was that the educated rich should live close to the poor and thus change society for the better. The Guild and School of Handicraft started life here in 1888.
Spitalfields Life have a good post about Toynbee Hall with lots of pictures.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Toynbee Hall
Our picture comes from Google satellite view and shows, better than can be se...
Toynbee Housing Society Evershed House Community - Opened on September 23rd 1...
Toynbee Hall Gatehouse Inaugurated by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Harold...
From their website: "... started in the 1980’s by a group of local women from Somers Town who had decided that they needed an informal environment in which they could learn more about their health,...
Founded in the 1880s by Angela Burdett-Coutts.
Born at 24 Grosvenor Square. Promoted many reform causes, connected with factories, children, mental illness, housing. Also supported the restoration of the Holy Land to the Jews. President of the ...
Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare
Missionary and social worker with the British poor, especially children. Born Thomas John Barnardo in Dublin with a Prussian father. "Brought to Christ" in 1862. Arrived at 30 Coburn Street in 1866...
Person, Children, Jack the Ripper suspects, Social Welfare, Ireland
Born Lancashire but brought up in London. A friend of Jeremy Bentham, Bentham dying in his arms. Chadwick's major achievement was the 1842 publication of the Poor Law Commissioners' "Report on the ...
