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Brewer's Charity Almshouses

Courtesy of Reg Baker

Chapel Lane
Winthorpe
England

Chapel Lane, now known as Chapel Row. Photographed in the mid 1970's after extensive renovation. See NCCE000522, NCCE000523 and NCCE000524. Thomas Brewer was a yeoman resident benefactor of Winthorpe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. He left money, property and land to the village which instituted a charity which still exists today. Rents were gathered from the land, whilst the properties were divided into 5 tenements and gardens (the Almshouses seen here) and occupied free by the poor of the parish. Other brewer money was used to pay a schoolmaster

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