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Fire Systems
Fire Systems FAQs We are pleased to announce that following engagement with residents and through the agreement between staff, Board and our consultants at David Miles & Partners, we are about to undergo our fire alarm installation programme. However, following both consultation and communication from residents, we believe it is important to clarify on some of the…
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Household Support Fund for Kensington and Chelsea residents
Housing Support Fund from Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. There is help available for residents of the Borough struggling with household bills, food and clothing.
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Pioneers in scienceAt the National History MuseumWomen’s Pioneer Housing counted not one but three Natural History Museum (NHM) researchers amongst its early residents [the National History Museum was known as the British Museum (National History) until 1992]. NHM first began recruiting women scientists in the 1920s, but they were employed on part-time temporary contracts and…
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Ray Strachey
Ray StracheyRay Strachey (nee Costello)1887 – 1940Author, journalist, suffragist and political campaignerRay Strachey at work 1923 ©National Portrait Gallery (AX161150)Ray’s contribution to Women’s Pioneer Housing was relatively short but invaluable. It’s likely that Etheldred knew Ray from The Common Cause, a suffrage newspaper that Ray edited and Etheldred had written for. Ray first appears in WPH’s records…