Ada House
This block was built in 1937 by the London County Council and was named after Ada Place in which the block is situated; which in turn had been named after Ada Lewis the wife of the founder of Samuel Lewis Housing Association which is now known as The Southern Housing Group.
Tower Hamlets Community Housing THCH
E2, Pritchard's Road, Ada House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Ada House
Initially the Samuel Lewis Housing Trust, set up after the death of the found...
Ada Hannah Lewis-Hill, philanthropist. Born Liverpool but brought up in a lar...
Moneylender and philanthropist. A jew, born in a slum in Birmingham, who work...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Ada House
THCH is a charitable housing provider managing over 3,000 homes exclusively i...
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This plaque surely should have been designed with the Clarendon typeface, just as Johnston's plaque used his.
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