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 Much Hadham almshouses date back to before 1689. Clutterbuck reports that a Mr Piggott devised that the almshouse residents ...
The days shorten, the trees show their structures and lockdown two continues. After all the rain recently, River Rib just manages ...
The following letter was printed in the Hertfordshire Mercury on 15th December 1919. This was a man who had a ...
Now in the second lockdown from yesterday until 2nd December. Only able to meet one person outdoors so no family ...
The Jubilee years of 1887 and 1897 saw an outpouring of ideas for civil and charitable projects as a form ...
Looking back over my early life in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, my memories are mostly of the outdoors, watery outdoors.
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An unknown donor gave land on which 4 tenements were erected, each for a poor widow. They were pulled down ...
One look at this building and you immediately recognise it as an almshouse. It’s a strange mixture of plain and ...
‘This old terrier speaks of almshouses in connection with the churchyard, and in another terrier seventy-five years later we find ...
