Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #almshouses, aggregated by home.social.
Mae wins planning consent for Old Kent Road almshouse scheme
The scheme, for later living accommodation provider Southwark Charities, is a 71-unit almshouse north of Burgess Park. It…
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The Alms Houses, Barnstaple, Devon, 1937 - RP Postcard
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Barnstaple, Devon
Early C20 postcard by R.L. Knight of woman at communal water pump in courtyard of C17 Penrose Almshouses in Litchdon Street. The buildings are Grade I Listed and still almshouses.
Woofindin Almshouses, Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, c.1905-10 - RP Postcard
A different Trafalgar Square.
This one's in my home city of Sunderland in North East England.
In 1747, following an Act of Parliament, seamen were required to pay six pence per month from their wages to support disabled seamen and their families. This became known as the 'Muster Roll Fund'.
In Sunderland's East End, these historic almshouses were subsequently built to accommodate the families of lost seamen.
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St John's Almshouse, Sherborne, Dorset, c.1910 - Adam Gosney RP Postcard
Some excellent short talks already from #AllAboutThatPlace!
Catch up with everything so far (including a brilliant #OnePlaceStudy talk by George Hall) via the Facebook Group, or if you're not on FB via the Society of Genealogists' YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@SocietyofGenealogists/videos
On now: Cathy Soughton's talk, #Almshouses through the Ages.
While I’m aware of medieval almshouses, I didn’t know they were still a thing. It’s great that there’s more being built now than in Victorian times, and I hope this kind of approach, along with co-operative housing, becomes even more of a thing.
It looks like they could be particularly useful for helping everything from ending […]
https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/05/24/almhouses-as-a-way-forward-for-social-housing/
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