| 1845 - 496 páginas
...have in this number, the satisfaction of calling public attention to a short prospectus, and the plans of the " Metropolitan Association for improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes," with a capital of 100.000/., in 4000 shares at 251. each, the interest on which is very properly limited... | |
| George Washington Light - 1847 - 398 páginas
...6000 members, with a fund of nearly £5000. Improved Dwellings for the Poor. — A general meeting of the Metropolitan Association for improving the dwellings of the industrious classes, was held in London, March 6, 1846, at which an interesting report was read, developing their plans,... | |
| William Kirby Sullivan - 1854 - 616 páginas
...per cent, on the outlay. The operations of this society have, however, been exceeded in magnitude by those of " The Metropolitan Association for Improving...charter, £1,000,000 for the Provinces; the shares are £25 each. This association has erected, in St. Pancras-road, 20 sets of tenements containing two... | |
| William Laxton - 1854 - 608 páginas
...that the buildings have been opened for residents only about five years. The Association took the name of the "Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes," and their first buildings, called the " Metropolitan Buildings," are situated in Old Pancrasroad, leading... | |
| Boston Mass, joint special comm, comm. on the census - 1856 - 132 páginas
...that they have been opened for residents only about seven years. This first association took the name of the " Metropolitan Association for Improving the dwellings of the Industrious Classes," and their first buildings, called the " Metropolitan Buildings," are situated in a crowded neighborhood... | |
| Matthew Davenport Hill - 1857 - 748 páginas
...Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, a Society was formed to accomplish that object. It became a branch of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes, and it has now (December, 1 856), built thirty -three small houses. These are placed round an airy... | |
| Matthew Davenport Hill - 1857 - 740 páginas
...Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, a Society was formed to accomplish that object. It became a branch of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes, and it has now (December, 1 856), built thirty-three small houses. These are placed round an airy court... | |
| Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 384 páginas
...meeting hears with satisfaction the success which has attended the establishment of the Brighton Branch of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes, and is of opinion that the extension of the undertaking will be the means of conferring more extensively... | |
| National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1859 - 760 páginas
...interference with private property. One of these societies, which was formed in 1842 under the designation of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes, is based on the sound and only principle on which it can be reasonably expected that the construction... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1860 - 576 páginas
...Reports of the Society for Improving ttie Condition of the Labouring Classes, 1845-59. 20. Reports of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes. London, 1846-59. 21. Reports of ' The Association for Promoting Improvement in the Dwellings and Domestic... | |
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