Founded as the Labourer's Friend Society by Lord Shaftesbury intending to improve working class conditions. It was keen on the provision of allotments. 1844 it changed its name to the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes.Incorporated by Royal Charter 1850. In 1959, the company became the 1830 Housing Society, which was taken over in 1965 by the Peabody Trust.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes
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Nottingham House
Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes incorporated b...
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New Islington & Hackney Housing Association / Mosaic
From a Peabody page (in 2021, but the text had gone by 2023): "... also in 1963, the New Islington & Hackney Housing Association formed with about half a dozen properties. It was set up to alle...
1 memorial
Sanctuary Housing Association
The Sanctuary Housing Association manages homes across England and Scotland, providing general rented, sheltered and home ownership accommodation.
1 memorial
Thomas Stephen Dulley
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862. Thomas Stephen Dulley was born in 1821 in Putney, the fifth of the eleven children of Henry Dulley (1771-1846) and Tomzon Dicker Dulley née Stephens...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare
1 memorial
1 memorial
Westminster Union Workhouse / St James Workhouse
The parish of St James Piccadilly erected a workhouse on Poland Street in 1725 for the able-bodied poor. This was taken over by the newly-formed Westminster Union in 1868. The workhouse closed in o...
1 memorial
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