Tuesday, Jan 23, 2007
Shelter founder dies
Firstrung: Shelter founder Reverend Bruce Kenrick has died aged 86
In 1963 Kenrick, then a parish priest, established the Notting Hill Housing Trust in response to the squalor he'd observed in the area's overcrowded tenements - what he later described as 'damnable housing conditions' with 'families living in one room with a stove and sink squeezed into one corner'.
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1. paul said...
And with a storage cupboard on sale in Chelsea for £170k, I bet he's turning in his grave!
2. dohousescrashinthewoods said...
I heard about this on Radio 4, seemed like a really determined guy. Nice to know some people are tirelessly working for the greater good. Also nice to hear that he wasn't super-human, he tried, failed and sometimes despaired, but kept his determination. Good stuuf.
3. Crashedoutandburned said...
'Families living in one room with a stove and sink squeezed into one corner'. A few years ago we looked at some studio flats. I didn't know what a studio falt was - I guessed it was something like a loft apartment. On more than one occasion the Estate agent disturbed two adult, two kid families living in these things. Our area is now becoming a bedsit land where five, six, seven, eight adults ahre basic facilities. We're already back in the 60s and heading towards a modern-day Dickensian England where the multitude of Cayenne's cruise past the rapidly worsening decay.