1 The Countess of Warwick Home for Crippled Children in mentioned in the 1900 Kelly’s Directory of Warwickshire
2 The home is also mentioned in the 1901 census
Site of the Countess of Warwick Home for Crippled Children founded in the early 20th century.
1 Almshouses developed in late 18th century with their own water pump (MWA2165). Became part of a joint almshouses charity known as St Marys Almshouses charity in 1956.
None of the ...
18th century almshouses located where Albert Street meets Saltisford, to the west of Saltisford Evangelical Church.
This almshouse was founded by Miss Marianne Phillips in the 1860s as a hostel for 12 poor, unmarried women. She left a £2,000 endowment for the almshouse. It was built ...
These keys were “rescued” by my father when the Workhouse, by this time renamed Lakin House, was demolished in September 1974. Although I have no recollection of the workhouse its ...
The founder
Nicholas Eyffler was a glass maker from Germany who worked at Charlecote and Kenilworth Castle. Warwickshire County Record Office has a fine collection of documents about him; including his ...
The almshouses were founded in the 1570s by Thomas Oken, who has been called ‘Warwick’s most famous son’. He was a silk merchant – a self-made man without children who ...
1 Warwick Poor Law Union was formed on 29th June 1836. A new Warwick Union workhouse was erected in 1837-9 at a site on the east side of what ...
The site of Warwick Union workhouse, constructed in 1837. Virtually all the former workhouse buildings have now been demolished, although parts of the 1903 infirmary remain.