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Building    From 11/7/1879 

United Westminster Almshouses

Categories: Social Welfare

United Westminster Almshouses

A scheme of the Charity Commissioners dated 11 July 1879 consolidated the separate almshouses in Westminster founded by James Palmer, Nicholas Butler and Emery Hill, into the United Westminster Almshouses which were built in Rochester Row in 1881-2.

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United Westminster Almshouses

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Emery Hill bust

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James Palmer bust

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its third session on 10 December 1948. Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the committee that drafted it and our image shows her holding the Spanish...

Concept, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Henry Sterry

Henry Sterry

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Person, Race Issues, Social Welfare

1 memorial
St Pancras Housing Association

St Pancras Housing Association

One of the earlier housing associations. In 1924 Father Basil Jellicoe founded the St Pancras House Improvement Society Ltd which was later named the St Pancras Housing Association. In 2000 it merg...

Group, Property, Social Welfare

3 memorials
Amy Garvey

Amy Garvey

Campaigner for gender and social justice. Born in Jamaica.  1914 met Garvey, joined the Universal Negro Improvement Association and became a Pan-Africanist campaigner.  Moved to the US in 1918 wher...

Person, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Jamaica, USA

1 memorial
Almshouse Association

Almshouse Association

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Group, Community / Clubs, Social Welfare

1 memorial