Waddington, Almshouses 1899
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The apron, or uniform, on the lady in our photograph reminds us that these almshouses were also referred to as Waddington Hospital. The child on the donkey next to her could have been recuperating. In 1706 Robert Parker paid for the building of these almshouses to accommodate twenty-nine widows and spinsters of the parish. They were moved to this site around the village green just over a century later.
An extract from Heart of Lancashire Photographic Memories.
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