The 'British and Foreign Blind Association' was formed in 1868 by Thomas Rhodes Armitage. The organization moved into these offices in Great Portland Street in 1914, in the same year it changed its name to the 'National Institute for the Blind'. From 2008 it was known as the 'Royal National Insitute of Blind People'.
The architect Claude W Ferrier commissioned this photograph.
This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Client: Ferrier, Claude W
Photographer: Boucher, Adolphe Augustus: Bedford Lemere And Company
Early 20th Century Institute For The Blind, Shop