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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 ...
... The Octavia Hill Centenary. London and other parts of Great Britain centenary honours are being paid to-day to the memory of that remarkable and splendid woman, Octavia Hill, pioneer housing reformer, apostle of open spaces and friend of the lower classes ...
... 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 ...
... Sextette Intime. 6.30 The Master Singers.” 7.o—Time, and News in French. German, and Italian 7.30 —“Good News.” 8.0- -Octavia Hill. 1838-1912 —Sir Lawrence Chubb and Jean M. Thompson. 8.15 8.8.C. Orchestra. o—Variety from Palace Theatre. Burnley. 9.30 ...
... 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) ...
... Women Housing Managers’ dinner to mark the centenary of the birth of Octavia Hill. Lord Balfour of Burghley, president at the dinner, gave two silent toasts —the King and Octavia Hill—and then proposed the health of the guests, to which the Earl of Athlone ...
... given full discretion and independence in regard to the details of administration. * Management should be based on the Octavia Hill system, and wherever practicable women housing estate managers should be employed. suitable cases the local authority or ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Jupoa spent the week-end with the ,| Duchess of Kent at Coppins, Tver Books. p. in( . ns Alice, Countess of Athlone, the Octavia Hill Centenary Claridpe’s. London, on X ,‘ r . of the Society of Women to c e Managers. Lord Balfour of l ,'i : will preside ...