coffee-sheds

Updated: May 1, 2025

She had established evening schools, lending libraries and coffee-sheds, and of these and further efforts she wrote: "Second to the preaching of the gospel, we lay every laudable snare to induce men to learn to read and write. In doing this, spare time is occupied to the best account, and the enemy is foiled in some of his thousand-and-one ways of ensnaring the toil-worn navvy at the close of day.

Clara M. S. Lowe - God's Answers : A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada