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Means “fine place”, there are several variations around London and beyond. The street was built on the site of Rossie House, which from the 1920s had been run by Homes for Working Homes in London, a charity set up in 1870 by three old school friends, Tom Pelham, Arthur Kinnaird and Quintin Hogg, as a home for working boys. In 1967, HWBL merged with another charity, the Fellowship of St Christopher, to form the St Christopher’s Fellowship. Rossie House continued in use under the new management but, renamed Kinnaird House, provided accommodation for young men, aged 16 to 21, from all parts of the country who had come to work in London on apprenticeships, in the Civil Service or in industry. The street appears to have been built sometime after that.
