From the Picture source website: "Turning Point is a social enterprise, focused on improving lives and communities. Any surplus profit is used to provide the best services in the right locations for those that need most, across mental health, learning disability, substance misuse and employment."
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Lorne House
Not the style, but the high quality of this plaque reminds us of the one in B...
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Aske's Hospital
About the building, from Shoreditch College: "The first building on {this site} was Aske's Hospital or the Haberdashers' Alms Houses, erected 1690-93 to designs of Robert Hooke ... for the Worshipf...
Tower Hamlets Housing Action Trust
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.
Hebra Gemilut Hasadim
This phrase translates as "Society for Deeds of Loving Kindness", a Jewish Benevolent Society. It was established on the site where Albert Stern House now is and included a hospital for sick poor a...
Greenwich Workshop for the Blind
The London Metropolitan Archive holds records for the Greenwich Workshop for the Blind, 1875-1960. and explains: "The Greenwich Workshop for the Blind, began as the Workshop for the Blind of Kent,...
Elizabeth Fry Refuge
Otherwise known as the Elizabeth Fry Institute for Reformation of Women Prisoners. JaneAusten (don't ask) gives some information; to quote: "Following {Fry's} death in 1845, a meeting chaired by t...
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Sir Joseph Bazalgette
Civil engineer. Born in Enfield. As chief engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works he created the London main drainage system and the Embankment. Great-great grandfather of Sir Peter, the tele...
Lillie Langtry - Pont Street
SW1, Pont Street, 21
Lillie Langtry, 1852-1929, actress, lived here. Greater London Council
Sir Thomas Davies
Lord Mayor of London, 1676-7. Pepys's bookseller. The first Stationer Lord Mayor, though he had to translate to the Clothworkers to be eligible. During his mayoralty the erection of the Monument...
John Sullivan
Television comedy scriptwriter. Born John Richard Thomas Sullivan in Balham. He had his first break with the sitcom 'Citizen Smith', and 'Dear John' and 'Just Good Friends' followed. His outstandin...
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