Building    From 11/7/1879 

United Westminster Almshouses

Categories: Social Welfare

A scheme of the Charity Commissioners dated 11 July 1879 consolidated the separate almshouses in Westminster founded by James Palmer, Nicholas Butler and Emery Hill, into the United Westminster Almshouses which were built in Rochester Row in 1881-2.

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United Westminster Almshouses

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