Anno 1722
The six almes-houses founded by Sr. John Woolaston Knt., being very old and decayed were pull'd down: and these twelve built in their room, together with a school house for the charity girls at the sole charge of Edward Pauncfort Esq. one of the governours and treasurer of the chapell and free-school of Highgate.
Founded by Sir John Wollaston in 1658.
N6, Southwood Lane, 25
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Pauncfort Alms Houses
Tory MP. Early in the 1700s he moved into Lauderdale House and took a great ...
Born at Perton in Staffordshire. His name varies in spelling: Wollaston or Wo...
The building was also restored after WW2 damage. There can't be much of the original left.
The Telegraph: "That November farewell, given in aid of a Polish charity, came at the end of a difficult six-month British sojourn, whi...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
Despite its appearance this memorial does not commemorate those who died in war. It's a list of people who have worked in the St John Am...
Virginia Stephen, Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, novelist and critic, born and lived here until 1904.
London County Council Field Marshal, Viscount Allenby, 1861-1936, lived here, 1928-1936.
Frank Charles Elliston-Erwood FSA, archaeologist & historian, 1883 - 1968, lived here 1912 - 1968. Woolwich Antiquarian Society
There is an almost identical plaque on Celia Blairman House in Folgate Street.
The cartouches are on the two gables on the front elevation. Speel informs that the relief and the plain inscribed stone were moved here ...
Wholesalers of coffee, tea, cocoa and spices, located at 202 Blackfriars Road (2021). The Daily Mail has an interesting 2004 article about tea tasting at the Wilson, Smithett tea brokers office, S...
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