Timeline

Snowsfields in Bermondsey is built

Fulham Palace Road is built, it’s the last estate to be built before World War One. 2,560 working class homes are now provided by Guinness Trust in London

• During the war, the population of Guinness Trust estates went down as men joined up; materials and financing were scarce; employees were given half pay if they joined up and rents were frozen at 1914 levels

• The Mayor of Chelsea offered a site on King’s Road on a 999-year lease. Sir Edward Guinness died in October, a few weeks short of his 80th birthday. His son, the second Earl, took over his Chairmanship

• Our first woman trustee, Lady Iveagh, the daughter-in-law of the founder and the third woman ever to be elected to Parliament, is appointed

• The Guinness Trust Newhaven holiday home opens, but is requisitioned by the Admiralty at the start of the war

• Five of the London estates are hit during the Blitz

• The Newhaven holiday home reopens for Guinness tenants

• A focus on the needs of elderly people in established in the Secretary’s Report

• Avenue Road (now Guinness Court) opens as a ‘residential club for ageing persons’

• 7,891 people are living in Guinness Trust buildings

• John Street, Newham is built to provide homes for 60 people, mainly young apprentices and older people

• Lord Iveagh gives up the Chairman role and it passes to Lady Elizabeth More O’Ferrall

• Northern Counties Housing Association is founded. The first homes were a co-ownership scheme off Ripon Road, Harrogate

• New Director, Noel Barwick, brings a new strategy for the Trust. It includes the modernisation of Snowsfields, and new buildings at Columbia Road, Page’s Walk and Lever Street

• The first non-London scheme is built at Gosport. Development proposals establish groups of projects in London and the Home Counties; the Midlands; Manchester and the North West; Newcastle and the North East and the South West. Victorian properties are purchased in De Laune Street, and converted into 104 self-contained flats plus a 9-unit hostel for single homeless people

• We manage around 3,400 homes across the country

• We manage 5,422 homes

• 67 dwellings are created at Dersingham, Norfolk, on land made available by the Queen at Sandringham

• 195 dwellings are built at Wingate Centre, Aldgate, Tower Hamlets – it’s a commercial development that includes social housing

• A shared ownership scheme was introduced

• Fulham Palace Road is modernised between 1977-83, knocking tenements together and adding modern bathrooms and kitchens

• Modernisation work on Draycott Avenue is completed, with the old bath house and club room turned into a day centre. It is opened by the Princess of Wales in September 1985

• Milton Keynes Housing Association is established, prioritising shared ownership

• Princess Diana becomes our patron

• Lorne House, Hackney, a centre for people recovering from substance abuse, opens with Turning Point

• Milton Keynes Housing Association develop their first rental homes

• Lady Amanda Ellingworth becomes a  Trustee

• Take on the management  of 3,000 rented homes and 3,000 shared ownership homes

• At our centenary we have 10,000 homes under management

• Take on Wycombe Friendship Housing Association

• Hermitage Housing begins operating, following a stock transfer from Havant Borough Council

• Our 40th shared ownership development, first rehabilitation schemes and shared equity bungalows for a residential home developer

• Our total number of dwellings grows to 16,769. Prince Charles becomes our patron

• The Swallows Care Village work is completed and takes the runner-up place in the National Housing Awards housing and health category

• Sheffield Foyer opens offering housing, training, employment support and life skills to young people

• Kennet Housing Association is established. The Parchment Group is created, incorporating Hermitage Housing, Hermitage Care and Gorseway Care

• Prince Charles launches our landscape design guide. Houses from the Darnhill estate are transferred to us from Manchester City Council

• Ujima Housing Group joins the William Sutton Housing Alliance

• We acquire City Response (repairs and maintenance) as a subsidiary

• The Parchment Group joins the Guinness Trust Group

• We become The Guinness Partnership, and now manage 50,000 homes

• Northern Counties is the first housing association in the country to gain Investors in People Champion Status. They become part of The Guinness Partnership

• Guinness Hermitage is created with the amalgamation of the Parchment Group, Kennet Housing Society, Guinness Housing Association and the Guinness Trust West region

• Works begins to redevelop Loughborough Park in Brixton

• Gloucestershire Housing Association joins Guinness Hermitage adding a further 3,600 homes to the portfolio