It became the Newington Lodge Public Assistance Institution in 1930, and was converted into social housing in 1948.
[2] The site was taken over in 1868 by the St Saviour Poor Law Union and became an infirmary.
[4] It then continued to be used as social housing by London County Council Welfare Department.
The comic actor Charlie Chaplin spent a short time in Newington Workhouse in 1896.
[8] The 1966 television play Cathy Come Home depicted the living conditions in Newington Lodge.