There was one small almshouse in Kenilworth, known as the ‘Widow’s Charity Houses’. It was founded in 1644 for poor widows by George Denton of Warwick, though later it was ...
Sir Thomas Puckering (1592-1637) owned the Priory in Warwick, now the site of Warwickshire County Record Office. He was the MP for Tamworth and Sheriff of Warwickshire, and his memorial ...
These almshouses were founded in the 16th century (along with the famous Rugby Public School) by Lawrence Sheriff who was born in Rugby and rose to become grocer to Queen ...
Florence Rose was the Rev. Squirrell’s eldest daughter, being born in Croydon in 1865. She was married to James Ward in 1893, when if the ages given on the census ...
The first well house was built on the instruction of the 4th Earl of Aylesford, the lord of the manor, following a visit to the town in 1803.
The house was ...
This is sometimes called the Camden Well and sometime the Aylesford Well but it actually pre-dates both these gentleman.
It is generally accepted that the well was first recorded by the ...
Sleepy, genteel Royal Leamington Spa had been immune from none of the concerns post-war. The town’s War Memorial bears witness to the number of its young men who gave their ...
I found mention of ‘new’ almshouses in Stoneleigh in the census but had been unable to find them. A national web-site identified a row of promising-looking sandstone buildings as almshouses ...
This delightful row of almshouses stands in the centre of the village of Stoneleigh. It was founded to provide homes for the poor by Sir Thomas and Lady Alice Leigh ...
The accusations
George Taylor’s violations included books being kept by a pauper for the previous two years, and of these, many had been in arrears for several weeks, while the charge ...
This cottage was known as ‘The Wells’ for many years, and was built on the site of medicinal springs. The baths consisted of three Mineral Springs of milky colour, diuretic ...
The old photo shows the distribution of loaves of bread from the charities of Mr Blissett and the Rev. Smith in 1899. Mr Adams (the ‘Custos’ or guardian of the ...
Here’s the little leper chapel in the Saltisford at Warwick, part of the remains of the Hospital of St. Michael (founded in the 13th century). Such hospitals were originally set ...
The almshouse in Leamington Hastings was founded by a schoolmaster called Humphrey Davis in 1608 for eight poor old people (later expanded to house ten). As you can see, the ...
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 ...
In July 1814 ‘The Royal Pump Room and Baths’, designed and built by C.S. Smith of Warwick at a cost of £30,000 were officially opened. The Spa treatment was claimed ...
Origin of the almshouse
Ten almshouses were built in 1417-18 by the Guild of the Holy Cross (amazingly, accounts survive of payments for the costs of the building including 26s 8d ...
Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Saunders is remembered with affection, as the first nurse in the Northern Ontario town of Cobalt. She was also the first person to open a hospital in ...
Annie Saunders had left Leamington with her family for the mining town of Cobalt, Northern Ontario. Life had been tough up until now, and illness and injury were prevalent. Having ...
Annie Saunders was three years into her move from Warwickshire to Cobalt in Northern Ontario, when in 1909 a fire destroyed a large portion of the town. Buildings were mostly ...
Vaccination is something we tend to take for granted these days but the concept of vaccination can be traced back more than 2,000 years. The Chinese first discovered a primitive ...
Hatton Asylum Orchestra. My Great Grandfather is on the end, left, with a violin. I am not sure of the date. My Great Grandfather was Henry William Johnson, a baker, ...
Rugby workhouse routine was considerably relaxed on Christmas Day. Dinner included ½ lb of meat per person with mashed potatoes and gravy followed by plum pudding, with beer, lemonade and coffee to drink.
Several private lunatic asylums were set up locally in the 19th century for those who could afford to pay. These private asylums were much smaller than the Hatton County Lunatic ...