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DEALING WITH THE TENANTS

... work a means of helping the tenants with counsel and sympathy—apian which has been successfully followed inLondonby Miss Octavia Hill and her assistants, and also in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The proposed dwellings will lx; very directly and specially under ...

Published: Wednesday 08 April 1891
Newspaper: Glasgow Evening Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Careers for Women, BY “ELEANOR PAGE.” XI.—HOUSE PROPERTY MANAGERS

... years since the woman pioneer in this carcer, Miss Octavia Hill, with John Ruskin’s aid. initiated a movement for better housing, and which eventually led to the formation of what is known as the Octavia Hill system of‘ property management, it is only recently ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1930
Newspaper: Hamilton Advertiser
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 613 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE POOR-- LAWS. -. ROY XL 00111IIS.SION OF INQUIRY APPOINTED

... R. Phelps, Professor William Smart. the RAY. W. Russell Wakefiekl. Mrs. Pernard Oneamenet, Mrs. Sidney Webb. and Mies Octavia Hill. It is understood that the name of the secretary of the Commission will shortly be announced, and an early meeting arranged ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1905
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 343 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LADY HENRIETTA EVANS

... public decorations they are pleased to take for themselves and value so highly. Mrs. Garrett Anderson, Mrs. Fawcett, Miss Octavia Hill, Mrs. Barnett, Mrs. Creighton, Mrs. Sidney Webb, and many another, ought certainly to knighted, and made into Ladies least ...

Published: Thursday 12 March 1914
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 338 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AN HISTORICAL PLAY-GROUND

... assisted in her honoarable labour by Mr Shaw-Lefevre, Mr Bcscawen Evelyn (in the unavoidable absence of his brother), Miss Octavia Hill, the Rev. Brooke- Lambert, Mr Norfolk, chairmanci the Greenwich District Board of Works, the Rev. G. Boggie, and other ...

Published: Thursday 22 July 1886
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 369 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

A WIDOWS BRKACH OF PROMISE ACTION

... on the Dwellings of the Poor. said that of all the modes of dealing with the evil of overcrowding that with the name of Octavia Hill commended imelf—he I • meant the method of doing what they could bit by bit to improve the buildings and condi. I of the ...

Published: Tuesday 25 March 1884
Newspaper: Glasgow Evening Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 439 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOR WOMEN House-Managers Give The Personal Touch

... sympathy, women show a ready aptitude for this work. It was woman who first put the idea of management into pract i c e Octavia Hill; a pioneer social worker of the last century. She managed a London block of flats and trained other women to do the same ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1945
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 450 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE DIIOP FELL,

... POOB. For this purpose section lias keen formed similar to that so extensively carried amongst the poor of London by Mies Octavia Hill. A Housing has obtained the generous offer from a house proprietor of the control of property near the docks. It block ...

Published: Friday 29 November 1889
Newspaper: Glasgow Evening Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 967 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

IMPROVED WI

... each staircase, to have resident to entrust the rent to ladies organised on the plan which has proved so successful Miss Octavia Hill and others, and to introduce the spirit of co-operation by allowing a bonus to tenants in certain cases, with the view ...

Published: Monday 14 April 1890
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 721 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GLASGOW KYRLE SOCIETY

... for the execution ig any extensive repairs; to ly the evatem of rent col ng by volun a eucceasfully carried on in Mies Octavia Hill ed aod in Edin- =H 4g the wi! In indow bi ranch, given out in 19 and dry bulbs to the number of 7542 |, 2 ad ‘bese and ...

Published: Thursday 29 November 1900
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 778 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

inz programme :

... THE FISIT OF THE ROYAL OOMYIT:SIONZES. The Inspector reported that the Right Hon. Charles Booth, Mr C. S. Loa, and Mina Octav-ia Hill, members, with Mr J. Jeffrey, assistant secretary, of the Royal Commission inquiring into the administration of the Poor ...