From October 1739 until June 2020 there was a statue of the philanthropist after whom the hospital is named at the centre of this Georgian courtyard. So why did it become a point of controversy?

In 1864, the first families moved in to these Peabody Buildings, the first of the housing projects funded by the American banker George Peabody.

This Grade II listed arts and crafts building is still home to Toynbee Hall, one of the world’s first university settlements.

Charles Holden’s mini masterpiece, a marriage of Scandinavian modernism and British Arts and Crafts.