Walking from Waterloo station to London Bridge along Union Street and then Snowsfields you pass a large cluster of redbrick buildings built in 1897, they still look great, I could imagine living there today. Built by Edward Guinness, great grandson of the founder of the Guinness brewing empire, they were intended to provide decent housing at affordable rents for ordinary people in London and elsewhere. The original amount of cash put up was £250,000 which doesn't sound much in the modern context but back then was a huge sum, today it would be worth around 25 million and housed around 400 people, a pretty decent thing to do I reckon.
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