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Disabled Soldiers & Sailors (Hackney) Foundation

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Also known as War Seal (Hackney) Foundation, this scheme was inspired by Sir Oswald Stoll's War Seal Mansions. The Foundation was formed after WW1 by G. F. J. Macleod, after a meeting held at Hackney Baths on 16 October 1916, chaired by W. F. Fenton Jones.

Registered as a charity in 1970, merged with the Haig Housing Trust in 2015, deregistered in 2019.

Haig Housing's Newsletter of Spring 2016 has this: "In 2014 Haig took over the administration of the Disabled Soldiers and Sailors (Hackney) Foundation and in February 2016 have become the sole Trustee. These ten houses on Wattisfield Road were built to provide homes for married men who had been enlisted in any of the fighting forces and then disabled. Later the remit was extended to other disabled public servants who served in the police, postal, municipal or railway services. Under the Trusteeship of Haig Housing the cottages will continue to provide affordable rental housing to veterans."

Hackney Archives apparently has a lot of material about this foundation, and its homes under D/F/YAT/5/1-5. There are no details later than 1930 contained in the records.

Sources: Wikimedia, Lost Hospitals of London.

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