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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
United Westminster Almshouses
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Emery Hill bust
The plaque immediately below the bust is blank but there are 4 others below t...
James Palmer bust
The plaque immediately below the bust is blank but there are 4 others below t...
Other Subjects
Bethnal Green and East London Housing Association / Gateway
From British History on-line: "The Bethnal Green and East London Housing Association was formed in 1926 by an Industrial Housing Fellowship Group. It was supported by the Poplar Ruridecanal {sic} C...
3 memorials
Charles Hopton
Born into a wealthy merchant family and admitted as a child to the Guild of Fishmongers. His will provided for almshouses to be built in the parish of Christchurch, Blackfrars, for poor, single men...
2 memorials
Mother Kate
Mother Superior of St Saviours Priory at the time that the community moved from East Grinstead onto the Dunloe Street site, in 1866. When she died in 1923 a memorial fund was created to help comple...
1 memorial
Edward Owen Greening
Co-operative movement activist and social reformer. Born at Warrington, Lancashire. He joined the Anti-Slavery Society and was a supporter of the Northern cause in the American civil war. His invol...
1 memorial
Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society Ltd
The picture shows the first premises of this organisation, before they moved in, at the corner of Falmouth Street and Maryland Street in Stratford.  Started by a group of men at Stratford Railway W...
1 memorial
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