Mansfield, Notts (Portland Street)
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Mansfield, Notts (Portland Street)
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 15 Jul 2012
A view of Portland Street (formerly Bull’s Head Lane) looking towards its junction with Nottingham Road. On the left are the "additional six" almshouses built in 1844 and funded by the Elizabeth Heath Charity. Although this row of cottages "for ancient ladies" was in use until the Winter of 2011/12 they are now empty and boarded up. The original single-bedroomed almshouses – twelve in number – are situated on Nottingham Road and are still inhabited. Elizabeth Heath (1617-93), a Mansfield resident and a Quaker, endowed these almshouses for women born in Mansfield or having lived in Mansfield for a substantial part of their lives and with limited assets - criteria that remain in use today. The allocation of residents i.e. "six Quakers and six church members of the established church" presumably demonstrated a wish to avoid clashing with the Anglican authorities given that Quakers were frequently shunned by most other authorities at this time?
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Image Location
Latitude
53.138684
Longitude
-1.198572