Rigid Rules of the Tate Almshouses
Channel: Mitcham Notes
Date: 2023-05-16

In 1829 the Tate’s Almshouses at the Cricket Green in Mitcham were constructed to provide “a residence free from rent, taxes and outgoings for 12 poor women who shall be respectively widows or unmarried women … members of the Church of England and who have a legal settlement in the parish.”

This video tells of the 'rigid rules' of these almshouses, as told in an article from the Mitcham News & Mercury in 1960.

For a transcript of the article, see https://mitchamhistorynotes.com/2017/10/06/rigid-rules-of-the-almshouses-in-old-days/

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