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Building    From 1987 

Gatehouse Square, Southwark

Categories: Social Welfare

Building

Social housing and nearby workshops designed by the Greater London Council for Southwark Council and funded by the Sea Containers Group.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Gatehouse Square, Southwark

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Gatehouse Square, Southwark

The sculpture is titled "Great Oaks from Little Acorns".  From PMSA:"... hold...

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Octavia Hill

Octavia Hill

Housing reformer and co-founder of The National Trust.  Born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, her father's eighth daughter (yes, really).  She believed that social housing should be small houses (rather...

Person, Gardens / Agriculture, History, Property, Social Welfare

11 memorials
Father Basil Jellicoe

Father Basil Jellicoe

Anglican vicar.  Born Sussex, his father being a cousin of Lord Jellicoe. Worked in the slums of Somers Town, north London in the 1920s. He set up the St Pancras House Improvement Society and persu...

Person, Religion, Social Welfare

3 memorials
Morris Leivesley

Morris Leivesley

54 years secretary of the Foundling Hospital.

Person, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Samaritans

Samaritans

Formed by Chad Varah at St Stephen Walbrook Church to befriend the suicidal and despairing. The Samaritans gives a good history of the organisation including how it was named: "Chad Varah had achi...

Group, Social Welfare

2 memorials
North Islington Infant Welfare Centre and School for Mothers

North Islington Infant Welfare Centre and School for Mothers

Founded by Florence Keen.  1983 renamed 'Manor Gardens Centre'.

Group, Children, Social Welfare

2 memorials