Freehold Land Society Meeting Promotes Social Reform
A Dudley gathering backs Freehold Land Societies with aims to create common funds for freeholds and moral reform. Speakers urge sanitation improvements and repeal of window duties while praising local newspapers for coverage. about forty new members join the Dudley Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freehold Land Society
Buarr
W. H. Brooke
Taz
Tus Frenholper
Pastures
W. Rogers
Prince
J. Palmer
Hipkiss
J. Riches
Wolverhampton Society
Millward
Dudley Society
Ledbury Freehold Land Society Public Dinner Celebrates Land Purchase
About 150 members and friends attended a dinner at the George Hotel to mark the society's first land purchase of four acres with three cottages in Bye-street. Speakers highlighted progress, the aim of land ownership, and future cottage building while praising the working classes and promising prudent use of funds.
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Canal Bridge
George Hotel
Ledbury
Antonio
R. Biddulph
Society
F. Higgins
George Masefield
R. Hill
Edwin Meacham
Daniel Moore
James Gregg
Henry Moore
George Piper
James Ward
John Walters
Thomas Ward
James Mayall
Bodenham
W. Jukes
Spencer
T. 8. Smith
Taylor
Worcester
Birmingham
Freehold Land Society
Feargus O’connor
Freehold Land Societies
England
File
Warwick
Robert Peel
CuurrMan
Hear
Mr. B
Herefordshire
Ledbury Freehold Land Society
Meacham
Mr. M
Higgins
Finsbury Meeting Promotes Moral and Social Goals of Societies
A public meeting at the Finsbury Mechanics Institute discussed the aims of Mechanics Institutes and Freehold Land Societies, praising their social and intellectual work for workers. Speakers argued for practical reform, recalling past electoral battles and the need for united action against corruption and unequal representation in Parliament.
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Finsbury Mechanics’ Institute
Scott
Youne
Brat
Mechanics’ Institutes
Irving
Tam
House of Commons
Palmy
Countess of Beauchamp
Worcestershire
Duke of Wellington
Dover
Hampshire
Lord Louther
Westmoreland
Cumberland
Duke of
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