Group    From 1964 

Turning Point

Categories: Social Welfare

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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Turning Point

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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

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...

Group, Education, Social Welfare

2 memorials
Tower Hamlets Housing Action Trust

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.

Group, Property, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Hebra Gemilut Hasadim

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...

Group, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Greenwich Workshop for the Blind

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,...

Building, Commerce, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Elizabeth Fry Refuge

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...

Group, Social Welfare

1 memorial

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Sir Joseph Bazalgette

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...

Person, Engineering

7 memorials
Lillie Langtry - Pont Street

Lillie Langtry - Pont Street

SW1, Pont Street, 21

Lillie Langtry, 1852-1929, actress, lived here. Greater London Council

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Sir Thomas Davies

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...

Person, Lord Mayor

1 memorial
Earl Roberts

Earl Roberts

W1, Portland Place, 47

Earl Roberts (1832 - 1914) Field-Marshal, lived here.

1 subject commemorated
John Sullivan

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...

Person, TV & Radio

2 memorials