Henry Roberts was a founder member and the honorary architect of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes in 1844. The Society played an important role in changing opinion to housing for the poor, largely by erecting and publishing a variety of exemplary buildings, all to designs by the honorary architect. Roberts's most successful model dwellings for the Society were the block of self-contained flats in Streatham Street, Bloomsbury (1849–50)...
Test