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OUR WEEKLY OWZ

... they (9) Which village in Cornwall has associations with King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table? (Ill) Who was Octavia Hill ? Anzwere on Pate 111. Another Quiz next week ' 1 I ...

Published: Friday 30 June 1961
Newspaper: West Lothian Courier
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 116 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

THE REAL HOUSINUr MAN: UER

... learn w submit that those dangers are to be eliminated a@ sootal and national poing of view, our need to best w put into by Octavia Hill On the other hand, we of the Institute to pey more and More attention the urgent necessity of the status of the profession ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1937
Newspaper: West Lothian Courier
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 489 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Poor Law Comisio■ of Inquiry

... Rev. H. Russell Wakefield has been Mayor of Marylebone, London. and was on Mr Long's Committee. Mrs Sidney Webb and Miss Octavia Hill have been prominently associated with Poor Law work. Mrs Boeanquet is the wife of the Professor of Moral Philosophy at ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1905
Newspaper: West Lothian Courier
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 532 | Page: 8 | 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

BATHGATE

... best wishes to the Guild for 1956. The socaker for the evening was Dr D. K. Somerville who spoke on the lite and work of Octavia Hill 0838) English Social Reformer. whose aim was to reform the miserable housing conditions of her time. Her literary works ...

Published: Friday 20 January 1956
Newspaper: West Lothian Courier
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1186 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... Mrs Hill was a woman with decided views on education, and as a result Octavia's upbringing was most careful and methodical. The mother never forgot nor allowed her family to forget they would have to earn their own living when they grew up, Octavia in ...

Published: Friday 20 June 1913
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1178 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ESTABLISHED OVER QUARTER OF A =MIRY

... M.A., *Mr. Charles 8. Loch. •Mr. T. H. Nunn, the Rev. L. R. Phelps, Mr. William Smart, *Mrs. Helen Bosanquet, and 'Miss Octavia Hill. *With certain reservations. °EI/ESTI/ODE SMOIES SERIES. $O. 7. . EVZRYBODY SMOKES PLAYER'S MIXTURZ 01 NAVY MATCHLESS ...

Published: Thursday 18 February 1909
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 2267 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... a scheme for improv- ing the houses of the poor similar to that originated and saccessfully conducted in London by Miss Octavia Hill, he said that the problem as to the providing of good and cheap houses for the working classes had not yet been solved ...

Published: Thursday 29 November 1888
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4650 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

“ARNOTT’S ANNUAL BALL SHOW.” THE HOUSING OF THE POOR. business, They could not look for sué¢h a | evel pment

... volu:.teer rent collectors, The experience on Our “ remooneration ” was to be seven shillings a very large scale of Miss Octavia Hill in rom the nature of the evidence given at th a day. and on a considerable scale of the Social Union in jng, juest the ...

Published: Thursday 29 November 1888
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6049 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ONE UNION FOR BUILDERS

... assn. fated with revolutionary ideas—one expect. thongs of the woman publisher. Look at the social work of the late Miss Octavia Hill, one of the first, if not the first, to start the housing reform movement in London. Sir: was directly responsible for ...

Published: Tuesday 22 October 1912
Newspaper: Daily Citizen (Manchester)
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5612 | Page: 6 | Tags: none