Early social housing in Southwark, Bradshaw’s Hand Book to London (No.86)
The appalling living conditions in the slums of Southwark attracted the attention of concerned philanthropists, and the City Livery Companies.
Slums in Southwark, Bradshaw’s Hand Book to London (No.85)
Bradshaw says the Palace of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, ‘..was converted by Henry VIII into a Royal Mint, subsequently taken down and replaced by a number of mean and irregular dwellings…. Here were the cheap lodging houses of the … Continued