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The building was the WFL’s home when it was most
active; its offices were probably on the first floor. There
was a free library here of suffrage books and pamphlets by
July 1910. The headquarters were busy and sociable:
organisers met here to plan campaign steps, and sellers of
The Vote and other pamphlets would have come here to
collect copies.
Number 1 Robert Street was built as part of the
pioneering Adelphi development by Robert Adam and
his brothers James and William between 1768 and 1774.
The three-storey building, with attic and basement, was
designed to house flats or chambers for letting, and is one
of the few parts of the Adelphi development to have
survived demolition in the 1930s.
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