Hearts of Oak Benefit Society
AD 1888
W1, Rathbone Street
This was a rear entrance to the offices of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society at 15-17 Charlotte Street, now occupied by the Charlotte Street Hotel. This eBay item shows the Charlotte Street building in 1942.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hearts of Oak Benefit Society - W1
National Archives gives: "It was on 20th June 1842 that twelve members of a P...
School founded by Angela Burdett-Coutts in 1849 and a member of that family still (2016) sits on the governing board. William had died ju...
This 1897 OS map shows that Bethnal House Lunatic Asylum occupied the land between this alley and Bethnal Green Gardens. The Warburton fa...
Time & Talents, established 1887, founded to improve the living and working conditions of women and children employed in the factorie...
The stones laid in the ground nearest the camera were, we think, once the base for a bench, now gone. The inscription is on the the stone...
May 2016: The Islington Tribute reports that the plaque has been replaced, 27 May, with one giving the correct date of habitation (1944-7...
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