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158: 86:'s former home. Cons ran the building personally and in addition to housing, the building included a sanatorium, library, evening classes and day nurseries. "On one side of a quadrangle is a high row of buildings and on the opposite side is a row of cottages, which allows plenty of light and air to gain access to the higher edifices." 214: 195: 219: 229: 93:'s, in which female rent-collectors befriended and maintained the welfare of residents. Surrey Lodge was destroyed during the Second World War. 188: 79: 181: 90: 123: 224: 24: 137: 83: 59: 112: 42:, the Working Girls Home (a hostel in Drury Lane) and the Home for Feeble-Minded girls in 165: 39: 38:
Cons was an active philanthropist in the late nineteenth century, having also founded
208: 67: 55: 28: 21: 66: – Cons worked as a rent-collector in Hill's housing schemes at Barrett Court, 63: 78:
The SLDC's main building was the quadrangle-form Surrey Lodge, built in 1884 near
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This article about a philanthropic or charitable organization is a
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The building was managed on terms similar to Hill's and the
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Philanthropic organisations based in the United Kingdom
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philanthropic
model dwellings company
Victorian era
Emma Cons
Morley College
Bodmin
Cornwall
Old Vic
Lilian Baylis
women's suffrage
Octavia Hill
Oxford Street
Waterloo station
Sir James Wyatt
East End Dwellings Company


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