Red Cross Garden, Southwark

Red Cross Garden was her pioneer social housing scheme, built on the site of a former paper factory and hop warehouse.

[3] The original layout consisted of curved lawns, flower beds and serpentine paths, with an ornamental pond and fountain, a bandstand, and a children’s play area.

[8] In 1889 Hill and Hoole commissioned Walter Crane to decorate the interior with ten deeds of heroism in the daily life of ordinary people, of which three were executed and survive.

[10] The mosaics were The Sower, by the glass-makers James Powell and Sons after a design by Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, and The Good Shepherd, by Antonio Salviati.

[12] It is now mounted on a modern building, Octavia House (occupied by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine),[13] which is built on the former children's play area.