John Fotherley had mortgaged his estates to King Charles I. After the restoration of the monarchy he regained his estate ...
Gilbert Scott later designed or restored about 850 buildings, including the Midland Hotel at St Pancras station, the chapel of ...
Information about this establishment is shrouded in the mists of time and it may well be that it was not ...
Ralph Day was the main instigator of almshouse provision in the Sarratt and Chipperfield areas, though his brothers Henry and ...
Baldwin’s almshouse was built in 1550 or 1700. Historic England (citing Pevsner) and Cussans quote the earlier date, while Victoria ...
The Church and Poor Lands were comprised in an indenture dated 20 July 1652. The English Civil War had ended. ...
The original almshouses were built in about 1686 at Kitts End, on a site now occupied by Lower Kitts End ...
There’s nothing new about ‘nimbyism’ – Not In My Back Yard. John Howkins’ will reveals that the locals were not ...
Clutterbuck refers to ‘three other houses in Cock Lane …… forming 6 dwellings on the front of which is the ...
This establishment was probably never used as an almshouse in the traditional sense. A footnote in Victoria County History vol ...
Harriot Grimston married Major Poore at St Albans Abbey in March 1885. The Grimston family was prominent in the area. ...
This organisation is not an almshouse charity in the traditional sense so much as an organisation helping with housing, subsidising ...
William Skipwith died in 1509. In his will he states, ‘I will that the three tenements adjoining my gate be ...
It seems there was some sort of almshouse provision near St Ippolytts church for over 300 years, from about 1612 till ...
This is a picturesque group of almshouses. Built in the 17th century, they were enlarged and altered in the Gothic ...
‘The best laid schemes of mice and men gang oft awry’, to quote Robert Burns, was W Frampton Andrews’ summary ...
The distinction between the idle poor and the deserving poor is a discussion which is unlikely to be resolved. The proposal ...
The Jubilee years of 1887 and 1897 saw an outpouring of ideas for civil and charitable projects as a form ...
Mary Bailey Smith spent most of her 77 year life in Watford. Following an illness lasting some years, she died ...
Henry Gosling (c1854 – 1918) was a missionary at the Watford Town Mission in the lower High Street. He visited ...
A lucky look back to say goodbye to the warden suddenly answered my question. Information had been found about the ...
‘The Hon Alice Coralie Glyn is a woman of word and deed’ is how the Illustrated London News described her ...
Old Church House at 4 Church Street, just to the east of St Mary’s church, has fulfilled many functions in its ...
This almshouse at Weston was the last of three erected by Henricus Octavus Roe. It was erected in 1840, at ...
