John Passmore Edwards blue plaque
Connection to This Location
# Wells Way: A Monument to Passmore Edwards's Vision Standing at the corner of Wells Way and Neate Street, you're looking at the physical embodiment of John Passmore Edwards's radical belief that working people deserved dignity, cleanliness, and intellectual nourishment—not charity, but infrastruct...
Location
Wells Way
Inscription
Passmore Edwards Library, Baths and Wash House a ‘one-stop shop’, opened in 1903 on the corner of Wells Way and Neate Street. Partly funded by Victorian philanthropist John Passmore Edwards, its aim was to improve the health and leisure of local working people, at a time when many houses lacked bathrooms, clothes-washing facilities and books.