The Outsiders. Skip to main content. Our dear friend Bridget Orlando passed... - Regine de la Hey-oltra. Maternity homes | The Salvation Army | The Mothers' Hospital (1890-1986) | Hospitals | From Fever to Consumption - The Story of Healthcare in Hackney. 183 Amhurst Road was originally a 'rescue home for unmarried mothers' © Natasha Lewer Hopetown, 165 Lower Clapton Road, was established during the First World War as a 'home for mothers and infants' By Natasha Lewer Pregnant outside marriage Girls and women who became pregnant outside marriage frequently found themselves ostracised and thrown out of their jobs and their homes.
Brent House, at 27-9 Devonshire Road (now Brenthouse Road), off Mare Street, was the Salvation Army’s first receiving home in Hackney. Giving birth At first, births took place at Brent House itself, under the supervision of midwife Caroline Frost, but when Ivy House opened in 1890, women were sent there to give birth, returning to Brent House three or four weeks later, where they stayed with their babies until according to Adelaide Cox “some situation is found for them or in some other way they are provided for.” Click here to read more about Ivy House Maternity Hospital . Mother and baby homes Six-month stay ‘Old girls’ Walter Segal by Colin Ward. WALTER SEGAL - Community Architect by Colin Ward The name of the late Walter Segal is now synonymous with self build housing. Whenever people meet to discuss what they could do to house themselves, someone mentions the Segal system of quickly-built, timber-framed dwellings which are environmentally friendly, and seem to generate friendship among the self build groups that have succeeded in housing themselves this way.
The attraction increases when we learn that they include men and women with every kind of background, and they often say that the experience changed their lives. The heartbreaks and delays that self builders experience are not to do with the process of building itself, but, as Walter Segal used to observe, are the result of the inflated price of land, the rigidities of planning and building controls, and the difficulty of getting mortgage loans for anything out of the ordinary. He found it among the village children, untrammelled by seriousness. The Segal Legacy. Leonard Cohen - BBC interview 1988. Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue. "No Direction Home" - Bob Dylan House of The Rising Sun [1080p]
Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness' I first met Toni Morrison about 15 years ago, to talk about her seventh novel, Paradise, an encounter I remember largely for its number of terrifying pauses. Morrison, in her late 60s then, was at the height of her powers, a Nobel laureate with a famously low tolerance for journalists and critics, and a personal style as distinctive as her prose: silver dreadlocks, sharp, unwavering eye contact and a manner of speech – when she did speak – that, to her annoyance, people were wont to call poetry.
Now she sits in her publisher's office in New York, the city laid out beneath her. She looks as grand as ever, but there have been changes. It is right after lunch when, says Morrison, she is accustomed to napping. "Not any more! It is hard to believe Morrison is 81. "There's nothing inside that's 81. Her latest novel, Home, is set in the aftermath of the Korean war and coincides with that sentimentalised period of American history that Morrison remembers rather differently.
Why short? Game face. Martha Gellhorn. Mary Wollstonecraft. Desmond Tutu Peace Centre | Home. A 'delighted' Archbishop Tutu makes hush-hush visit to Finsbury Park to meet youth workers on Andover estate. Archbishop Tutu chatted to young people about ‘their struggles Archbishop Tutu and Mary Robinson in the bus that visits the estate every week Published: 6 July, 2012 by PETER GRUNER ONE of the world’s most famous freedom fighters, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, made a secret visit to Finsbury Park on Wednesday to meet youth workers on the Andover estate. The visit, accompanied by Mary Robinson, first female President of Ireland, was so low key that even Islington’s most important dignitaries, Town Hall leader Catherine West and MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry, were not invited.
The Archbishop asked for no publicity on the day so that he could concentrate on talking to young people from the estate “about their struggles, challenges and hopes for the future”. The Archbishop and Ms Robinson are members of The Elders, a group of independent leaders currently in London working together for peace, justice and human rights worldwide. They aim to provide positive support for young people.