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- noun Plural form of
almshouse .
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The almshouses were the dumping-ground of a community's undesirables, including idiots and even insane, cripples and incurables, epileptics, old people, and orphan children, constituting a social environment that was anything but helpful to human development.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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It was plain that the almshouses were the unsubstantial fabric of a dream, but no one now dared to refer to them, and Mr. Kendal desired Albinia to write to consult her cousin.
The Young Step-Mother Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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He had himself been educated at Tamworth, where he had doubtless seen hungry and homeless persons suffering from cleanness of teeth and the winter's rage; and the almshouses were his contribution for their relief.
Thrift Samuel Smiles 1858
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It takes a while to recover from the gardens, the beautiful square of former almshouses and the Victorian gas lamps here.
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Hospitals and almshouses – supreme among them St John's Hospital, Lichfield – also borrowed ecclesiastical devices and symbols.
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A large percentage of ugly laws had "poor house clauses" that banished disabled people to jails or almshouses if they couldn't pay the fine.
Paul Boden: The Quality of Whose Life? Part 3 Paul Boden 2010
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A large percentage of ugly laws had "poor house clauses" that banished disabled people to jails or almshouses if they couldn't pay the fine.
Paul Boden: The Quality of Whose Life? Part 3 Paul Boden 2010
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A large percentage of ugly laws had "poor house clauses" that banished disabled people to jails or almshouses if they couldn't pay the fine.
Paul Boden: The Quality of Whose Life? Part 3 Paul Boden 2010
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The next meeting of Greenwich Industrial History Society is on 20th January and features Richard Hartree on John Penn - Penns were the mega maritime engineering works on Blackheath Hill Wickes site and were responsible for major breakthroughs in steam powered technology - founded the local almshouses and John himself was an MP.
Next gihs meeting - Penns M 2009
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Later the poor were shunted into almshouses, intended to promote work, temperance and character.
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