Description:Sir Martin Noell was a London merchant who was born in Stafford in the seventeenth century. He had these almshouses houses built on Mill Street for the poor of the town. The inhabitants were also given a small pension and a coal allowance from the Corporation.
The almshouses had their own chapel, whose stained-glass windows were believed to have come from the old castle church. A weekly service was held by the Sub-Rector of St. Mary's Church.
This photograph was taken just after the alterations of 1925 when the front wall was lowered, the old stables and outhouses were demolished, and paving from Bank Passage was taken up and re-laid here.
Photograph donated by Stafford Historical and Civic Society, who retain copyright ownership.