The History of the Kensington Soup Society

The History of the Kensington Soup Society PDF

Author: Kenneth W. Milano

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2009-02-01

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1625843291

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In the frigid winter months of 1876-77, more than twenty-seven thousand people called on the Kensington Soup Society. The society had come a long way from its humble beginnings in 1844. By World War I, however, the need for charitable soup organizations had begun its rapid decline. Facing financial crunches and internal turmoil, the society struggled to keep the doors of its soup house open. Other soup kitchens in the area closed; the Kensington Soup Society became the last of its kind. From the society's birth to its place in today's world, Kenneth W. Milano dives deep into the soul of the Kensington Soup Society.

A Century of Christian Service : Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893

A Century of Christian Service : Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893 PDF

Author: C. Silvester Horne

Publisher: HODDER AND STOUGHTON

Published: 1893

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13:

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A Century of Christian Service : Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893 Of the Kensington of 1793 I need not say much; for most of those who read this little book will be quite familiar with the astonishing change that has come over this locality since then. We like to recall the fields and woods through which the first seat-holders of Hornton Street Chapel walked to worship on the Sunday, even though the thought suggests melancholy reflections on our own loss in this respect. We are more content to have a century of time between ourselves and the footpads who infested the road that led to London. It appears that in 1820, when Mr. Faulkner was completing his history, a new church had been erected in Marylebone; and we are congratulated on the fact, because the joint parishes of Kensington and Paddington contain as many as twelve thousand people! And as for some years previous the great increase in the population had been causing considerable anxiety, and even alarm, we may easily estimate the paucity of the population of Kensington in 1793.

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