I hope before this dawning year passes away, to count at least one open space preserved among a waste of houses to be made fair and free for the people. I hope our own tiny plots, backyards and small forecourts, may be fuller of trees or grass or creepers; I hope that at least our club and institute rooms, which are the common sitting rooms of our courts, may be furnished with brighter colour. I hope that we may have a more organized body of singers, led by a conductor whom they know, and ready to sing in out of the way places. - Octavia Hill (who, in her 1875 Letter to Fellow Workers, set out her hope for the Society for the Diffusion of Beauty which she founded with her sister Miranda. Today is the anniversary of the birth of Octavia Hill (3 December 1838 – 13 August 1912), English social reformer, whose main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century. She was the leader of the British open-spaces movement and the formation of Englands National Trust for Places of Historic Interest.
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