Almshouses in E postcode area
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E1 Mile End
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Bancroft's Almshouses, 327 Mile End Road, E1
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Barrow's Almshouses, Coleberg Avenue, E1
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Trinity Almshouses (Trinity Hospital), 27 Mile End Road, E1 4TP
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E1 Spitalfields
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Weavers' Company Almshouses, Blossom Terrace, Norton Folgate, E1
In his will of July 1725 Nicholas Garrett
of Wandsworth bequeathed a sum of £1,000 to the Weavers Company
to build and endow six almshouses for its members. These opened in
1729, having been built on a site known as Porter's Fields at a cost of
£420 - the second almshouses built by the Company. Located on the
north siude of Blossom Terrace (near Elder Street), they lay to the
east of, and adjacent to, the Norton Folgate Almshouses.
The building was of red brick and had
a tiled roof. The door for the almshouses on the eastern side was on
the left of the ground floor windows, and on the right for thr other
three on the western side. Each almshouse contained two rooms. The
front of the building faced south and was set back from the street with
a 5 ft (1.5 metres) wide pebbled pavement in front of a garden wall.
Trees were planted behind the wall.
In 1732 they were described as 'very handsome almshouses'.
However, by 1845, the building was in such
a 'generally decayed state' that the Company was compelled to consider
rebuilding them. By good luck, the Commissioners of Works notified the
Company that the property would be required for the construction of a
new street - Commercial Street. On 2nd December 1851 the property was
sold to the Commissioners for £2,400. The six residents were
moved temporarily into three houses in Bonners Fields until the new Weavers Company Almshouses in Wanstead were available.
The building was demolished and its
site today is occupied by the northen extension of Commercial Street
and the rail line into Liverpool Street station.
E1 Stepney
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Barrow's Almshouses
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Fuller's Almshouses, 99 Mile End Road, E1
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Jewish Workhouse, 37-39 Stepney Green, Stepney, E1 3JX
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Moses's and Solomon's Almshouses, Colebert Avenue, E1
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Ratcliff Almshouses
E1 Tower Hill
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Merchant Taylors Almshouses, Hogge Lane, E1 8LP
Richard Hills,
a member of the Merchant Taylors Company who died in 1587, left large
bequests to the Company, which used some of the money to build new
almshouses on the north side of Hogge Lane, in Tower Hill. These opened in 1593.
Built of brick
and timber, with slate roofs, they accommodated 14 poor elderly single
widows of the Company. Fourteen members of the Company each sponsored
one of the residents, who received 16d (7p) or more a week, as well as
£8 15 shillings (£8.75) a year from the Company to pay for
fuel.
In 1637 the buildings were extended to house 26 women.
In 1767 the
almshouses were rebuilt at a cost of £2,000, which was borne by
the Company, no bequests having been made for the work.
By the early
19th century the houses were in a dilapidated state, with no
possibility of expansion on the cramped site. The Company decided to
build new almshouses in Lee, Kent. The residents were transferred to the new almshouses in 1825.
The Tower Hill
site was sold in 1863 and 1869 to the Blackwall Railway Company to
develop as a goods depot.
By 1720 Hogge Lane had been renamed Rosemary Street but today it is known as Royal Mint Street. Following Blitz damage during WW2 (1939-1945), the area has since been completely
redeveloped. The actual site of the almshouses was at the west end,
since renamed Shorter Street, and is occupied by the Minories Car Park.
E1 Whitechapel
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Emanuel Almshouses I
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John Baker's Almshouses
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In 1658 Williams Meggs, a draper, acquired
a piece of land measuring 90 ft wide and 45 ft deep (28 metres by 14
metres) on which to build almshouses for 12 poor parishioners of
Whitechapel. The candidates would be single, church-going and over the
age of 50 years. Meggs, who was unmarried and without direct
descendants, was a benefactor in other ways to various charities,
including financial help in rebuilding the Church of St Mary Matfelon in Whitechapel.
The almshouses were located on the south
side of Whitechapel Road. They
consisted of a simple 2-storey building with a railed forecourt in
front. The central section protruded slightly, with its pediment
bearing the Meggs arms and an inscribed panel of stone. The
building was divided into three sections and had three entrances, with
lobbies and staircases leading to the 12 single-room dwellings.
Each room was occupied by a widow. At the rear of the
building was a garden.
Meggs died in 1678, having left £1,500 in his will to be held in
trust for the provision of the living costs of the almspeople and
building repairs, but his nephew, Sir William Goulston, failed to apply
the funds properly. The situation was only rectified in 1767 by a
benefaction from Benjamin Goodwin, who repaired the almshouses and
endowed them (this was recorded at the base of the central pediment).
By 1773 each widow received an annual stipend of £5/4/0 (£5.20) and a chaldron of coals.
The building was repaired again in 1877 but six years later, in 1883,
it was sold to the District Railway. The almshouses were
demolished the same year and the surface building of St Mary's station was built on their site. The station closed in 1938; its disused
building was heavily blitzed during WW2 (1939-1945) but survived until
it too was demolished sometime later. The site of the almshouses
is now occupied by a former car showroom and the edge of an Ibis Hotel.
New Meggs' Almshouses were built in Forest Gate in 1893 by the Whitechapel parish.
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Pemel's Almshouses, Albion Yard, Whitechapel Road, E1
E2 Bethnal Green
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Parmiter's Almshouses, St John Street, E2 6EJ
In his will dated 29th February 1682,
the silk merchant Thomas Parmiter left two farms in Suffolk to be used,
after the death of his wife Elizabeth, to build and endow a school and
six almshouses 'on the waste of Bethnal Green'.
Elizabeth Parmiter died in 1702 and, on
7th April 1705, the trustees were instructed by an order in Chancery to
carry out the provisions of the will. Unfortunately, the income from
Suffolk was insufficient, but a bequest from Thomas Lee, the first
treasurer of the Parmiter's estate, and an agreement by the Dyers
Company to pay the annual rent of £10, enabled a site to be
leased for 600 years in 1720.
Building work began and the school and
almshouses opened in 1722. Located at the east end of St John Street,
the almshouses accommodated six elderly men. In the same year another
six almshouses were built to the right side of the building, financed
by the will of William Lee. (These were later extended by John Peck and
were known as the Spitalfields Almshouses - see below).
In 1732 the six almsmen - Anglican
parishioners - each received an annual pension of £2 10s
(£2.50). By 1763 this had increased to £5 and, by 1809, to
£10. In 1819 they also received 15 guineas (15.75) of coal a year.
In 1838 the site of the school and all
the almshouses was compulsorily purchased by the Eastern Counties
Railway. The Spitalfields Almshouses moved to the new Dyers Almshouses in the Balls Pond Road, while new Parmiter's Almshouses and School were built nearby, on the north side of Gloucester Street, just east of Cambridge Heath Road.
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Spitalfields Almshouses, St John Street, E2 6EJ
In his will dated
17th September 1720, William Lee, a dyer and benefactor of Parmiter's
Almshouses, bequeathed his nephew John Ham £300 in trust to build
six almshouses for poor members of the Dyers Company.
In 1721 Ham leased a plot of land at the lower end of St John Street
and built the almshouses on the right side of Parmiter's Almshouses
(see above), assigning the trust to the Company. In 1732 the residents
of the almshouses were six widows, each of whom receive 6 shillings
(30p) at the three Quarter Days of Lady Day, Midsummer and Michaelmas,
and 12 shillings (£1) at Christmas.
In 1739 John Peck
built an additional four almshouses for the widows of freemen of the
Dyers Company who had lived at Bethnal Green. Together with William
Lee's Almshouses, they became known as the Spitalfields Almshouses.
By 1829 each
resident received 3 guineas (£3.15) a year, paid quarterly,
together with an allowance of coals for the year, and 10s 6d (55p) at
Christmas.
By 1831 the
almshouses accommodated 10 widows of freemen or liverymen of the
Company, each of whom received 4 guineas (£4.20) a year, 10s 4d
(52p) at Michaelmas and 17 sacks of coal at Christmas.
The almshouses site was compulsory purchased in 1838 by the Eastern Counties Railway. The residents were rehoused in the new Dyers Almshouses, which opened in 1841 in the Balls Pond Road, Islington.
Today the site of the almshouses is occupied by railway lines, most probably those south of the stub of Hare Marsh.
E2 Hackney
In his will of 7th October 1703 Richard
Morrell bequeathed a sum of money for the erection of six almshouses to
accommodate poor elderly liverymen (or, if in want of such, freemen) of
the Goldsmiths Company.
In addition, he appointed a sum for the
purchase of an annuity of £31 4s (£31.20) to provide an
annual pension of £2 for each almsman. Each also received 2
chaldrons of coal a year, as well as a new gown to the value of
£2 10s (£2.50).
The almshouses were built in 1705 along a
pathway in the fields of Haggerston. The path later became Mutton Lane
and then, by the mid 19th century, Goldsmith's Row.
By 1863 the almshouses were in poor repair,
but they lasted until 1889, when the Company was deterred from making
improvements by the combination of building costs and the poverty of
the surrounding area. It decided to cut its losses and sold the site
for redevelopment.
By 1895 their site was occupied by Belmont
Mansions at Nos. 67-77 Goldsmith's Row, with houses and shops on the
frontage. Today, Belmont Mansions have gone in their turn and the site
of now part of Haggerston Orchard, a community garden project.
E2 Haggerston
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Shoreditch New Almshouses
E2 Hoxton
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Bermam's Almshouses II
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Geffrye Almshouses
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Harwar's Almshouses (Drapers Company Almshouses), 134 Kingsland Road, E2 8DY
The Almshouses opened in 1713, built on a
piece of land measuring 198 ft by 82 ft (60 by 25 metres), immediately to
the south of the Ironmongers Almshouses, in Kingsland Road. They had been established by the will of the draper Samuel Harwar, dated 28th January 1703, who bequeathed £1,700 for this purpose.
The single storey building contained 12
almshouses, six of which accommodated elderly widows or single Freemen
of the Drapers Company and six elderly poor widows nominated by St
Leonard's parish, Shoreditch. Each inhabitant received 6 shillings
(30p) a month and 18 bushels of coal a year, supplied by the Drapers
Company who administered the Almshouses.
By 1833 the monthly allowance had increased to £1 11s 6d (£1.58). The Company also provided a chaldron and a half of coal each year.
By the mid 19th century the building was in
a state of disrepair and not considered worth restoring. It was
demolished in 1879 and Thomas Street at the south side of the site was
renamed Harwar Street in its memory (later it was renamed again as
Cremer Street). The surviving funds from Samuel Harwar's Trust were transferred to the new Drapers Company Almshouses in Bruce Grove, Edmonton. The site today contains Tower View House and a parade of shops.
E3 Bromley-by-Bow
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Bowry's Almshouses, Bromley Public Hall, Bow Road, E3
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Drapers' Almshouses
E3 Mile End
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Cook's Almshouses, 391 Mile End Road, E3
E4 Chingford
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Chingford Almshouses, 1 Carbis Close, E4
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The Ridgers, 8 Templeton Avenue, E4
E5 Clapton
E5 Hackney
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Hackney War Memorial Home
E7 Forest Gate
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Legg Whittuck Almshouses
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Pawnbrokers Almshouses, Woodgrange Road, E7
E8 Hackney, Dalston, London Fields
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Pacifico Almshouses
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Spurstowe House
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Spurstowe's Almshouses
E9 Hackney, Homerton
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Bakers' Almshouses
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Goldsmiths' & Jewellers' Asylum
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Hand-in-Hand Asylum
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Monger's Almshouses
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Norris's Almshouses
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Pilgrims Lodge
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Robinson's Retreat
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Widows' Home Asylum
E10 Leyton
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Leyton United Almshouses
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London Master Bakers' Benevolent Institution
E11 Leytonstone, Wanstead
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Fuller's Almshouses, Birch Grove, E11
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E14 Poplar
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East India Company Almshouses
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Hester Hawes Almshouses
E15 Stratford, West Ham
E17 Walthamshow
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Colby Lodge, 1c The Drivem E17
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Collard's Almshouses, 1 Maynard Road, E17
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Monoux Almshouses, Church End, E17
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Squire's Almshouses, Church End, E17
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