Almshouses, Wakefield
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Almshouses, Wakefield
Image: © Bill Henderson Taken: 4 Jan 2012
A Blue Plaque on these buildings, erected by the Wakefield Civic Society in 1995 says , ' Caleb Crowther M.D. , 1769 - 1849 built these Almshouses for poor nonconformists to the design of William Shaw, Railway Contractor and fellow worshipper at the Zion Chapel nearby.'
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Image Location
Latitude
53.680708
Longitude
-1.495207