(1) Family members rushed to help as the water threatened to spread from the low-level shower floor into the rest of the almshouse in Bovingdon Road.(2) The struggling public library was quartered in an 18th-century stone building that had been, in the course of its 185 years, an almshouse , an orphanage, and an insane asylum.(3) Mr Tonge said people eligible for the almshouse accommodation are those who have been taken off North Wiltshire District Council's housing list and cannot get council accommodation.(4) Thus, while the almshouse served the poor, it also served as a powerful vehicle of town life and political ambition.(5) With its laundry, library, almshouses and handsome non-conformist church, Saltaire was a grand achievement.(6) Salt built for his huge workforce a Congregational Church, 45 almshouses , 850 houses, plus schools, a hospital, library and bath houses - all neatly laid out in a grid.(7) In both the West and East there arose a network of almshouses for the poor, old-age shelters, medical hospitals, and orphanages.(8) Consultation with the residents of the almshouses has already begun.(9) The red brick almshouses , built around 1805, are a distinctive local landmark originally built to house the elderly.(10) Rev Ruth Scott, a mother of two, works as a part-time chaplain in Richmond Church Charity's seven almshouses .(11) Most of their income went on schools, almshouses , and the poor, and their charity attracted so many beggars that there was bad feeling in the village.(12) People with physical disabilities have been meeting at a community hall belonging to the almshouses in Victoria Road.(13) Urban women utterly without resources could seek obstetrical care in almshouses or charity hospitals.(14) Rural towns often maintained outdoor relief even while increasingly building almshouses to maintain the poor.(15) But at the time the only alleviation remained the institution of workhouses, although philanthropists were constructing almshouses , cheap housing for the poor.(16) It was still early and the ideal time to pay a quick visit to the thatched Beck Isle Cottage, surely the most chocolate boxy house in the county, and the almshouses .
