The idea of adjusting clocks in order to benefit from daylight was first proposed in New Zealand in 1895, and was first implemented by Germany and her allies in WW1 (to save coal). William Willett came up with the idea independently in the UK in 1905 but it was not implemented here until WW1 and in the US in 1918.
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Daylight Saving Time
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William Willett - W3
Hamptons International, the estate agents, occupy William Willett’s former es...
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Rotary International
An international organisation with the purpose of bringing together business and professional people, to provide humanitarian service, goodwill and peace around the world. It was formed in Chicago ...
1 memorial
St Mary’s Girls' Club
See Gospel Lighthouse Mission for all we have on this.
1 memorial
2 memorials
Lewis "Daddy" H. Burtt
Brother of John Burtt. They had been found on the street and were educated in a Ragged School themselves. Founder of Hoxton Market Christian Mission.
1 memorial
Father Basil Jellicoe
Anglican vicar. Born Sussex, his father being a cousin of Lord Jellicoe. Worked in the slums of Somers Town, north London in the 1920s. He set up the St Pancras House Improvement Society and persu...
3 memorials
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