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The Improved Industrial Dwellings Company

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Waterlow's example was influential. The Newcastle Upon Tyne Improved Industrial Dwellings Company was set up by James Hall of Hall Brothers Steamship Company, Tynemouth, after visiting Sir Sydney Waterlow's establishment in London.
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Tarn, J.N. (1968) The Improved Industrial Dwellings Company, Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, vol. 22, pp. 43-59.
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Waterlow worked with the builder Matthew Allen, choosing not to use an architect. Blocks built by the IIDC include:
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Wohl, A.S. (1977) The eternal slum: housing and social policy in Victorian London. London: Edward Arnold
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Labourer's Friend Society/Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes
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Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
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There were others in Old St Pancras Road, Wapping, Greenwich and Islington.
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National Archives acquisition LMA/4013; list of blocks built by the IIDC
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James Hall of Tynemouth: A Beneficent Life of a Busy Man of Business
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http://www.lamas.org.uk/archives/transactions/volume22.html
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Newcastle upon Tyne Improved Industrial Dwellings Company
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Philanthropic organisations based in the United Kingdom
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Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company
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Index

Public
London
UK
Sydney Waterlow
London
Model dwellings

Mayfair
Victorian
Model dwellings company
philanthropist
Sir Sydney Waterlow
London
working classes
Marlborough Buildings
Chelsea
Huntingdon Buildings
Bethnal Green
Leopold Buildings
Sandringham Buildings
Cromwell Buildings
Southwark
Langbourn Buildings
Finsbury
Clarendon Flats
Cobden Buildings
Islington
Devil's Acre
Westminster
Derby Buildings

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