London’s need for expansion may have been the catalyst for building these almshouses 280 years after Eleanor Palmer died a ...
By 1925, the period of the Roaring Twenties, interest rates and unemployment were high and the post-War prosperity was in ...
John Garrett was a London merchant tailor. He lived at the end of the Stuart and start of the Georgian ...
The various livery companies have a long tradition of supporting charities, and the Leathersellers Company is no exception. The 15th ...
The Sisters of Jesus Hospital were neither nuns nor nurses. They were the residents of James Ravenscroft’s almshouse in Wood ...
The gestation period for this almshouse was 80 years. While Samuel Byford died aged 86 in 1898, the cottages he ...
This not so much an almshouse as a developing estate of almshouses, specifically for the benefit of those linked with ...
There were shortages and, for many families, little reason to celebrate Christmas in 1917 but commerce encouraged celebration.
Re-drawing the county boundary
Snow 100 years ago also disrupted schooling. The log-book for Monken Hadley Infants School (HALS/HEd2/4/2) recorded: 24 Feb 1916: Snow so deep ...
The watercolour paintings shown here are just some of the numerous images in the County Views collection that is held at HALS ...
