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ALL ABOUT THE NATIONAL TRUST

... three speakers at a meeting of | the Trust’s Wolverhampton centre last night. | Three people, including philanthropist Miss Octavia Hill, founded the Trust in 1895, said centre chairman Miss E. M. Mountain. ~ How the properties were managed was discussed by ...

Published: Wednesday 26 October 1966
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

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... realised the great pressures that were likel{ to be placed on the landscape of Great Britain. They were Sir Robert Hunter, Octavia Hill, the well-known social reformer, and Canon Rawnsley, the Vicar of Derwentwater, and in 1895 they formed the National Trust ...

Published: Wednesday 26 May 1982
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 114 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

NOT MUCH BOTHERED ABOUT THE PUPILS Wton meeting hears story of National Trust

... the Trust, Miss E. M. Mountain. chairman of the Wolverhampton centre. said it was founded in 1895 by three people — Miss Octavia _Hill, a pioneer in housing reform; Sir Robert Hunter, a solicitor and Canon Rawnsley. for 30 years vicar of Crosthwaite, Keswick ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1962
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

BLECTRICAL ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN

... and beginning with the year 1895. when the trust was first started she recalled that the three people responsible were Octavia Hill, Canon Rawnsley and Sir Robert Hunter. Since that time, the trust had gone from strength to strength, and the body of dedicated ...

Published: Thursday 18 November 1971
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 261 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Liz Knight with a new book on the place of the single woman

... names of female do-gooders. And dogooders in the best sense of the word. Women like Florence Nightingale, Edith Cavell, Octavia Hill, Christabel Pankhurst and of course Walsall's Sister Dora. Women whose single-minded determination made life and living ...

Published: Monday 09 September 1974
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 510 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

VLY S CEE g (Channel Four)

... the Collar asks whether the Church has a part to play in industry, 6-45—Sunday Story. Dorothy Alison tells part one of Octavia Hill. 6.so—Songs of Praise from Cathcart Parish Church, Ayr. 7.2s—Operation Amsterdam (Feature Film). The film, featuring Peter ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1966
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 419 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

A Woman Pioneer

... His book shows Octavio Hill not only Si a leader in Housing Reform, but In other lass well-known roles as ,well. She was a in so many good muses. It is written with sympathy but without undue bias. We may regret that Mr. Hill does not bring out the monistic ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1956
Newspaper: Staffordshire Newsletter
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 664 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

A Victorian Saint

... She was the most spectacular of the Victorian heroines, but she should not be allowed to over- ' shadow Elizabeth Pry. Octavia Hill. Josephine Butler and scores of others. To-day, when women enjoy the same political. educational and social rights as men ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1954
Newspaper: Staffordshire Newsletter
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 882 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

MIDLAND RADIO GUIDE

... (mezzoo) 20 BBC Symphony Orchestra In Bcgen (8) conducted b{s&mlund Part 1. Sibelius, Britten 25 Drnwm’ And The People. Octavia Hill (1838-1912) 38.15 CMN 5-) Pll'l 2 B'lr‘nhms (Symphony No 2). 4.5 Martino Tirimo (s) Piano recital: Mozart, Reizenstein ...

Published: Friday 30 May 1986
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 566 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

RADIO

... 30 Acante et Cephise, Ou La Sypathe 325 Open Air Sitting Rooms. Last of three extracts from the Journals and letters of Octavia Hill (1838-1912). 745 Acante et Cephise. Acts 2 & 3 (4.25-4.30 Interval Reading). 5.15 New Premises. 0.00 Liszt and the Piano ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1986
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 694 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

National Trust ignores members

... National Trust ignores members SIR, It was in 1895 that Canon Rawnsley, Octavia Hill and Sir Robert Hunter brought into being the National Trust. From the beginning certain principles were laid down; rules that protected the flora and fauna on its properties ...

Published: Tuesday 24 January 1995
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 949 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

m Nowhere in Bali is far from the ethereal bings and bongs of the Gamelan a 30 strong orchestra of

... this year The Harkness stand was breathtaking with two notable introductions Reconciliation and the pink low growing Octa-via Hill Brenda Hyatt’s display of Auriculas set in an 18th Century Auricula Theatre showed these fascinating Fitting Chelsea admire ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1995
Newspaper: Burton Daily Mail
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1049 | Page: 15 | Tags: none