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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;〔Mrs. H. O. Barnett, ''Canon Barnett, His Life, Work and Friends, 1918, vol. i'', pp. 129–40〕〔Whelan, R. (ed.) (1998) ''Octavia Hill and the Social Housing Debate: Essays and Letters by Octavia Hill, London: Civitas〕 it was finally incorporated in 1884.〔O'Day, p.151〕〔Connor and Critchley〕 Its aim was to "house the very poor while realizing some profit",〔''(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〕 "their particular purpose being to erect blocks of dwellings, to be let by the room, so that the poorest class of labourers could be accommodated".〔('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〕 Unlike many of the model dwellings companies, the EEDC offered accommodation to the casual poor and day labourers.〔O'Day, p.157〕 The company's first venture was Katharine Buildings in Aldgate, followed by a number of 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〔(Susannah Morris, Social Policy: From the Victorians to the Present Day )〕 and Ella Pycroft, who ran the Buildings alongside Maurice Eden Paul.〔Mackenzie, N. (ed.) ''The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Volume 1, Apprenticeships 1873-1892'', p.46-7〕 ==Buildings== *Katharine Buildings - Cartwright Street, Aldgate〔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.〕〔(AIM25 WEBB, Beatrice, 1858-1943: Aldgate papers )〕 *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)〔(Kings Cross Railway Lands Group )〕 *Mendip Houses - Kirkwall Place, Bethnal Green (1900) *Shepton Houses (1900) *Merceron Houses (1901) *Montfort House (1901) *Gretton Houses (1901) *Thornhill Houses - Barnsbury (1902)〔(Thornhill Houses Tenants and Residents Association )〕 *Evesham House - Old Ford (1905) *Globe street/Cyprus street block - Bethnal Green (1906) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「East End Dwellings Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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