The scope of this survey, started in March 2016, is to list, locate (and hopefully photograph) the almshouses (or sites ...
There are many sources of information, all with their own benefits and disadvantages. They need to be regarded as complementary. ...
‘There are no documents extant showing the origin of this charity; but there were formerly certain tenements called Church Houses ...
It would be nice to know how Glad’s Cottage got its name. However, it is really one of three buildings. ...
The building was erected in memory of Richard Mountford Wood M.A., late rector of the parish by his widow and ...
‘Crased in body but in perfect memory’ was how Richard Platt described himself when he wrote his will. A brewer ...
Even today Round Bush is a small community about half a mile east of Aldenham. Cussans recorded that four neat, ...
Henry Chauncy Henry Chauncy was the renowned historian of Hertfordshire, but it was his father, also named Henry, who left the ...
George Moss dedicated these almshouses to the memory of his mother, Frances, who had died in 1838, 66 years previously, ...
Alms Lane in Ashwell was not always known by that name; an 1877 map shows it was formerly Pickings Lane. ...
John Boteler gave a messuage at the Aston church gate, an almshouse and some other land to John Kent in ...
Money and shady dealings often go hand in hand. John Wynne, a citizen of London and a member of the ...
In January 1838 Henricus Octavus Roe, a maltster in High Street, attended a local meeting as he wanted to erect ...
You can’t always believe what’s written in stone. The dedication stone states these almshouses were erected by the great-grand-daughters of ...
‘For the use of the poor’ is an inexact description. It usually means that the property would be let, with ...
This is one of the oldest Town Houses in the country, built around 1530 (probably 1526). Henry VIII was still ...
When he was vice-chairman of Jesus Hospital, Lancelot Hasluck realised there was still a great need for almshouse provision. That ...
There is a report that Sir George Knighton had leanings towards ‘the old faith’ of Roman Catholicism, which could be ...
Charles Deedes, the rector of Bengeo for 28 years (1848 – 1876), would have overseen the building of the new ...
We may need to go back to Elizabethan times for the foundation of these almshouses. Victoria County History simply says ...
It seems that George Byng, 2nd Earl Strafford, had some involvement in two almshouses. He purchased the site of the ...
One look at this building and you immediately recognise it as an almshouse. It’s a strange mixture of plain and ...
A cottage in the churchyard and another at Gossams End were bought by the parish 1703 for the habitation of ...
Edward VII passed along South Street on the day the almshouse foundations were laid, and allowed them to be named ...
