East End Dwellings Company

East End Dwellings CompanyCompany type| Public Company

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Industry| Housing
Founded| Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom (1882 (1882))
Founder| Samuel Barnett
Headquarters|

London

Area served

| London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Key people

| Samuel Barnett, Beatrice Potter (estate manager), Ella Pycroft (estate manager), Maurice Eden Paul
Products| Model dwellings

The East End Dwellings Company was a Victorian philanthropic model dwellings company, operating in the East End of London in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The company was founded in principle in 1882 by, among others, Samuel Augustus Barnett, vicar of St Jude's Church, Whitechapel;[1][2] it was finally incorporated in 1884.[3][4]

It aimed to "house the very poor while realizing some profit",[5] "their particular purpose being to erect blocks of dwellings, to be let by the room, so that the poorest class of laborers could be accommodated".[6] Unlike many of the model dwellings companies, the EEDC offered accommodation to the casual poor and day laborers.[7]

The company's first venture was Katharine Buildings in Aldgate, followed by several schemes in Bethnal Green, London. They went on to build around the East End. Along the principles of Octavia Hill's schemes, the company used female rent collectors, including Beatrice Potter (later Webb), one of the founders of the London School of Economics & Political Science[8] and Ella Pycroft, who ran the Buildings alongside Maurice Eden Paul.[9]

## Buildings[edit]

Dunstan Houses, Stepney Green, London E1, built by the East End Dwellings Company in 1899

* Katharine Buildings \- Cartwright Street, Aldgate[10][11]
* Museum House \- Green Street, Bethnal Green (1888)
* Tankerton Street, King's Cross (1892)
* Meadows Dwellings \- Mansford Street (1894)
* Ravenscroft Dwellings \- Columbia Road (1897)
* Dunstan Houses \- Stepney Green (1899)
* Whidborne Buildings \- Tonbridge Street, Kings Cross (1890s)[12]
* Mendip Houses \- Kirkwall Place, Bethnal Green (1900)[13]
* Shepton Houses (1900)[13]
* Merceron Houses (1901)
* Montfort House (1901)
* Gretton Houses (1901)
* Thornhill Houses \- Barnsbury (1902)[14]
* Evesham House \- Old Ford (1905)
* Globe Road/Cyprus Street block \- Bethnal Green (1906)

## See also[edit]

* List of existing model dwellings

## References[edit]

1. ^ Mrs. H. O. Barnett, Canon Barnett, His Life, Work and Friends, 1918, vol. i, pp. 129–40
2. ^ Whelan, R. (ed.) (1998) Octavia Hill and the Social Housing Debate: Essays and Letters by Octavia Hill, London: Civitas
3. ^ O'Day, p.151
4. ^ Connor and Critchley
5. ^ Bethnal Green: Building and Social Conditions from 1876 to 1914', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green (1998), pp. 126-132. Date accessed: 24 March 2011
6. ^ 'The Fossan (Keate and Tonge) estate', Survey of London: volume 27: Spitalfields and Mile End New Town (1957), pp. 245-251. Date accessed: 24 March 2011
7. ^ O'Day, p.157
8. ^ "Susannah Morris, Social Policy: From the Victorians to the Present Day". Archived from the original on 10 May 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
9. ^ Mackenzie, N. (ed.) The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Volume 1, Apprenticeships 1873-1892, p.46-7
10. ^ O'Day, Rosemary (2004). Caring or controlling? The East End of London in the 1880s and 1890s. In: Emsley, Clive; Johnson, Eric and Spierenburg, Pieter eds. Social control in Europe: Volume 2, 1800-2000. Columbus, Ohio, USA: Ohio State University Press, pp. 149–166.
11. ^ AIM25 WEBB, Beatrice, 1858-1943: Aldgate papers
12. ^ "Kings Cross Railway Lands Group" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
13. ^ a b "The East End Dwellings Company". The Builder. 78 (2974): 120. 3 February 1900. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
14. ^ Thornhill Houses Tenants and Residents Association

## Further reading[edit]

* Connor, JE and Critchley, BJ (1984) The Red Cliffs of Stepney: History of Buildings erected by the East End Dwellings Co. 1885-1949, Connor and Butler
* O'Day, Rosemary (2004). Caring or controlling? The East End of London in the 1880s and 1890s. In: Emsley, Clive; Johnson, Eric and Spierenburg, Pieter eds. Social control in Europe: Volume 2, 1800-2000. Columbus, Ohio, USA: Ohio State University Press, pp. 149–166.

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