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... OCTAVIA HILL Fnearly half-a-century Miss FOR years it remained only Octavia HIM pioneer of slum a part-time task, for clearance as we know It to-day, which they would accept no acted as rent collector on the estates pay, earning their living in an East ...
... MY LADY'S NOTEBOOK. OCTAVIA HILL, HOUSING THORNE'S REPORTED ADMISSION. TRIAL STORY UNTRIJE? POLICY AS TO CONFESSION. WAS LANDLADY AND AGENT. STATEMENT BY HOME SECRETARY. CREATED A NEW PROFESSION. The Daily Express understands that Norman Thorne. shortly ...
... whichliasascheme for preserving historic country houses. has been doing similar work since 1895. it was then founded by Octavia Hill. Canon Rawnsley, and Sir Robert Hunter. The object was to promote the permanent preservation for the benefit of the nation ...
... really insoluble? Readers of this Women's Page on Thursday will learn something of the pioneer of housing reform in London. Octavia Hill was a poor school teacher. aged 26. when in 1864 she launched the housing reform ~cheme which has proved one of the most ...
... was born on 19th, and Mr. Justice Cozens-Hard the 22nd. THE last month of the year brings us four notable centenaries. Octavia Hill. philanthropist and worker in the cause of better housing for the poor. was born on December 3. Viscount (Honest John) ...
... ford soap its a pod Wit LB VBR P OCTAVIA HILL'S CENTENARY. HER WORK FOR HOUSING. ONCE SHE SHOCKED LONDON. Nearly seventy-five years ago Victorian London was shocked by the brazen behaviour of a young woman named Octavia Hill. Appalled by the terrible housing ...
... Miss Octavia Hill. A number of women managers trained in her system were at work not only in England and Scotland but also in Sweden. Holland and the United States. Over 50 local authorities now employed women managers. The basis of the Octavia Hill ...
... Trust was founded by Octavia Hill and two others. It was then a humble organisation, a labour of love aided by the subscriptions of a few friends, and when a woman presented to them their first charge, some property at Barmouth. Miss Hill said: We have got ...
... resolved to appoint a woman to manage two large h.msing estates at a salary of about La2oo a year. This is on the lines of the Octavia Hill system of property management, on the working of which by the Westminster City Council a very favourable report had been ...
... Queen Victoria, translated an English book descriptive of Octavia's work into German about 1876. The result was the formation of the Octavia Hill Verein (Union) in Berlin. IThis was Miss Hill's first link with Conti' nental Europe. Delegates from Germany ...
... a time when the idea of appointing a woman to a Royal Commission was thought monstrous, even though the woman was Miss Octavia Hill, and the subject to be investigated the housing question. In these days Royal Commission after Royal Commission is appointed ...
... hands of the Trust. In four years the National Trust will celebrate its jubilee. It was founded by three enthusiasts—Miss Octavia Hill, Canon Rawnsley, and Sir Robert Hunter. Surely with so much wanton destruction in the world their aims and objects should ...