• Tickets Alert: Hard hat tours of Bethnal Green’s Oxford House

    A side street off busy Bethnal Green Road is home to a Victorian building that is undergoing refurbishment, and next month is a chance to go inside and have a look.This is Oxford House, opened in 1884 as a ‘settlement house’, a new mode of philanthropy and volunteering that brought university graduates to live amongst the poorer communities, seeking to uplift their lives through social action.
    The original settlement was housed in a disused day school (now demolished), and the house

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