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Person    | Female  Born 22/9/1926  Died 3/12/2009

Elsie Naisbett MBE

Categories: Social Welfare

Tenant activist. Lived on the Studley Estate in Stockwell for 47 years, and helped a number of estates to transfer to being run by housing associations, along with investment from the Labour government in 1998. Subsequently became the vice-chair of the Hyde Southbank Housing (HSH) Association board. 

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Elsie Naisbett MBE

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Elsie Naisbett

Elsie Naisbett MBE, 22nd September 1926 - 3rd December 2009. This memorial pl...

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