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Lambs Conduit pump

Building, Food & Drink, Social Welfare

George Lansbury

Born Suffolk. Member of the Poplar Borough Council 1903 - 1940, Mayor 1919 - 20 & 1936 - 37.  Member of Parliament, Minister of the Crown, Privy Councillor. Leader of the Labour Party 1932 - 35...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

Rhaune Laslett-O'Brien

Born as Freda Pulverness in Stepney but lived most of her life in and around West London.  After WW2 the housing conditions, the poverty and the racial mix in Notting Hill brought out her skills as...

Person, Community / Clubs, Race Issues, Social Welfare

Susan Lawrence

Politician and social reformer.  Born as Arabella Susan Lawrence.

Person, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

Wilfred Lawson Sir

Radical, MP and temperance advocate, nicknamed "Dry Wilf". Second Baronet of Brayton.Member of Parliament for Carlisle, Cockermouth, Camborne, 1859-1906. President of the United Kingdom Alliance...

Person, Food & Drink, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

League of Jewish Women

Group, Community / Clubs, Religion, Social Welfare

Leathermarket JMB

Leathemarket JMB is Southwark’s largest resident-managed housing organisation. managing 1500 homes in Borough and Bermondsey between London Bridge and Tower Bridge.

Group, Property, Social Welfare

Morris Leivesley

54 years secretary of the Foundling Hospital.

Person, Social Welfare

Lewisham Union

A workhouse, established in 1612 in a donated house, was rebuilt in 1817 (opposite the southern leg of the road Lewisham Park and now called the  Waterloo block). The Lewisham Poor Law Union was fo...

Group, Social Welfare

Leysian Mission

From Wesley's Chapel and from Kay: The Leys School was opened in Cambridge in 1875; just two years after non-Anglicans were admitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It was intended to...

Group, Religion, Social Welfare