On Improved Dwellings for the Working Classes with a Plan for Building Them in Connection with Benefit Building Societies
Akroyd's ideas on building and funding workers' housing, including plans and illustrations.
Author: Edward Akroyd
Date: 1862
Location: Britain
Format: Topographical Survey
Document ID: 100923
Library ID: 27557407
This is Colonel Edward Akroyd's own account of his measures for providing housing for his workforce at the Haley Hill and Copley mills. It includes detailed plans and views of the prospective houses, together with remarks concerning the architecture and the intention that the occupiers should be given the opportunity to buy their own houses by instalments. Akroyd's scheme was one which was ahead of its time and displayed not only paternalism, but also the potential for self-help and led to further improvements in the lot of the working man.
