Group    From 1/12/1966 

Shelter

Categories: Social Welfare

A charity that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing in England and Scotland. Founded by Bruce Kenrick it evolved out of the work on behalf of homeless people being carried on at St Martin-in-the-Fields and was also spurred by the public outcry following transmission of the B.B.C. television play 'Cathy Come Home', which dealt with the problems of homelessness.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Shelter

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Bruce Kenrick

Bruce Kenrick, 1920 - 2007, founder of Notting Hill Housing Trust and Shelter...

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Keith Dudley Hoare, SBSTJ

Keith Dudley Hoare, SBSTJ

At Gibraltar Fire and Rescue Service this photo is captioned: "Captain W. H. Keith Hoare relinquished Military Duties and was appointed as the first Gibraltarian civilian Fire Chief of Gibraltar. H...

Person, Social Welfare, Gibraltar

1 memorial
Thomas Stephen Dulley

Thomas Stephen Dulley

Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862. Thomas Stephen Dulley was born in 1821 in Putney, the fifth of the eleven children of Henry Dulley (1771-1846) and Tomzon Dicker Dulley née Stephens...

Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Constance Finn

Constance Finn

Daughter of Elizabeth Finn.

Person, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Southern Housing Group

Southern Housing Group

Initially the Samuel Lewis Housing Trust, set up after the death of the founder in 1901. Their first housing development was in Liverpool Road, Islington. From their website: "As one of southern E...

Group, Property, Social Welfare

3 memorials
Brent House Salvation Army maternity home

Brent House Salvation Army maternity home

The Hackney Society says: 'Brent House, at 27-9 Devonshire Road (now Brenthouse Road) … was the Salvation Army’s first receiving home in Hackney. It opened in 1889 and was described as "a home for ...

Building, Social Welfare

1 memorial