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Driscoll House A TV lounge, 2006. Driscoll House is a building at 172 New Kent Road, London, England, which has operated as a hostel since 1913.The building is on the south side of New Kent Road, between the Bricklayers Arms flyover and Elephant and Castle station, and is a well-detailed example of the pre-World War I institutional Baroque style.
The Rowton House in Highgate, Birmingham, now a hotel. Rowton Houses was a chain of hostels built in London, England, by the Victorian philanthropist Lord Rowton to provide decent accommodation for working men in place of the squalid lodging houses of the time. George Orwell, in his 1933 book Down and Out in Paris and London, wrote about ...
Queen's Gate House, still commonly known by its previous name of Baden-Powell House, is a conference centre in South Kensington, London.It was built as a tribute to Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, and has served as the headquarters for The Scout Association, as a hostel providing modern and affordable lodging for Scouts, Guides, their families and the general public staying in ...
Arlington House is a hostel for homeless men on Arlington Road in Camden Town, London that opened in 1905. It was designated as a Grade II listed building in 2011. [ 1 ]
Student Movement House at 32 Russell Square (in the Bloomsbury district of London), was founded in 1917 as a social centre and hostel by the Student Christian Movement of Great Britain and Ireland. The House was founded with legacies from three of its members who had been killed in World War I , and it was dedicated on 26 November 1917 as a ...
The four penny coffin or coffin house was one of the first homeless shelters created for the people of central London. It was operated by the Salvation Army during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to provide comfort and aid to its destitute clients. For four pennies, a homeless client could stay at a coffin house. He received food and ...