Time and Talents Settlement, Bermondsey Street, Southwark, Greater London
It was built around 1907-8 and probably designed by Sir Reginald Blomfieldas. It was built as a hostel for the Time and Talents Association, as seen in the Arts and Crafts lettering in the carved stone frieze above the ground floor. The Time and Talents Association was an Anglican organisation set up in 1895 by West End women to help young working girls and women. It was a prominent part of the 1880-1914 settlement movement. Their aim was to get the rich and poor in society to live more closely together. One method was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas. Volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live there to share knowledge and culture with their low-income neighbours. The building hosted clubs, district visiting and campaigning around issues of girls' safety at work. It later became studios with flats above.
