Fulham: The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation building
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Fulham: The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation building
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 22 Jun 2008
Oswald Stoll was born Oswald Gray in 1866 in Melbourne, Australia. When his father died, his mother came to England, remarried and Oswald took the surname of his stepfather. Starting with running a music hall in Liverpool, Stoll became very wealthy through the building and operating of theatres in cities throughout the country. As one of his philanthropic acts he established this centre in Fulham Broadway in 1916 as a home for soldiers disabled during the First World War and their carers. In 2008 the charitable Foundation's mission is to ensure vulnerable and disabled ex-Servicemen and women live as independently as possible. The Foundation's website is here http://www.oswaldstoll.org.uk/ Stoll, who was knighted in 1919, died in 1942.
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