Birmingham Reform Plan Aims at Slum Clearance
The Birmingham Corporation unveils a sweeping scheme to destroy and rebuild a forty acre slum district with eighteen thousand new residents, new streets, and municipal lodging houses. The plan seeks cost recovery within fifty years and includes municipal control of gas and water to cut prices and improve health outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Dr. Richardson
Hygeia
Birmingham Frown Council
London
Midland
Chamberlain
Congregational Union Meeting Conversazione Highlights
A detailed report from the Memorial Hall event shows delegates and many ladies attending a conversazione. Objects from Sir Charles Reed and New College London items were displayed, with music and addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Reed
Old Fleet
Reed
John Milton
Barbican
Luther
Rowland Hill
John
Charles Wesley
John Williams
Morrison and Milne
China
William Jay
Robert Hall
Jonathan Edwards
Zinzendorf
Cowper
Longfellow
New College
London
Doddridge
Richard Chantrey
Wreford
Staffordshire
Chantrey
Watts
Lady Abney
Owen
John Hartopp
Northampton
Philip Henry
Matthew Henry
John Eames
Henry Miles
John Jennings
Union Chapel
Islington
Aveling
J. C. Harrison
W. Cuthbertson
Bishop’s Stortford
Congregational Churches
The
Congregational Union of London
A. Spicer
John Nunn
London Congregational Union
J. Holpren
Leeds
Yorkshire
Robert Spicer
Joan Nunn
Benjamin Scott
Stoughton
Kennedy
Psalmody and charitable remarks at Union Chapel service
Dr Mullens supported a resolution, which was carried, thanking the Union Chapel chair. Rev A Hannay urged aid for church psalmody improvements, seconded by Mr Thomas Scrutton and adopted. The choir sang several pieces before the benediction by Dr Allon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mullens
A. Hannay
Union Chapel
Thomas Scrutton
Allon
Public Meeting on the Claims of Christ for Young Men
A large City Temple gathering on a Friday evening focused on youth and spirituality. Speakers warned that untended youth temptations shape future lives, urged obedience and service to Christ, and called for a disciplined, all-encompassing spiritual life to guide moral development and restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City
S. Morley
M.P
A. Thomson
G. S. Barrett
Norwich
R. Wavehaan Pryce
Ll.b
Worcester
Congregational Union
London
God
Man
Christ
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Congregational Union Meetings
Conversazione
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