Newcastle-under-Lyme - Almshouses: sepia drawing

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Date:1840

Description:'Almshouses at Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire.' Showing a large block of two storeys, L-shaped, with five entrances.'J. Buckler.'

In 1688 the Duke of Albemarle bequeathed £6000 for the erection and maintenance of almshouses for twenty poor widows. The houses were eventually built in 1743, and had to be demolished in 1964 to make way for the inner ring road.

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Almshouses & Workhouses Almshouses & Charity

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Donor ref:SV-VII.97b (45/9402)

Source: William Salt Library

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