The Labourer's Friend Society was a society founded by Lord Shaftesbury[1] in the United Kingdom in 1830 for the improvement of working class conditions. This included the promotion of allotment of land to labourers for "cottage husbandry"[2][3] that later became the allotment movement,[4] which the Society campaigned for after the Swing riots of 1830 as "the most plausible remedy for the social problems of the countryside".[5] It published the Labourer's Friend Magazine, and in 1844 changed its title to the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, becoming the first Model Dwellings Company in 1844.
Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes
In 1959, the company became the 1830 Housing Society, which was taken over in 1965 by the Peabody Trust.
Buildings
Roberts's buildings made the SICLC a high-profile company with royal patronage and a display at the Great Exhibition; however, functional, utilitarian design of Roberts's buildings led to criticism that they were grim and unpleasant.[6]
Buildings included:
Model Buildings, Bagnigge Wells, Pentonville for 23 families, and 30 aged women
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