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 and lying-in women.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hebra Gemilut Hasadim
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Spanish and Portuguese Jews - 2
The Jewish calendar has a different start year (hence the "5425 - 1665") 3,76...
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Metropolitan Benefit Societies Asylum
The MBSA was created by John Christopher Bowles to 'afford an asylum for the reception of aged and infirm members of Friendly Societies' who lived in or near London.  Patrons were Queen Victoria an...
Family allowances
Pioneered by Eleanor Rathbone, specified in the 1942 Beveridge Report, Family Allowances were introduced in a 1945 Act of Parliament and came into operation in 1946.  It was the first time that a f...
Marylebone Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
Incorporated by royal charter in 1854, possibly on 7th April. Still operating in 1928.
Gospel Lighthouse Mission
Our drawing, from Exploring Southwark,shows the building to the right of the Mission before the Club building arrived.This website also gives the history of the construction of the two buildings, a...
Anti-Slavery Society
First founded in Britain in 1823 as the 'Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions'. When slavery was abolished in British dominions the Society w...
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