Norton Folgate Almshouses and Puma Court
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Norton Folgate Almshouses and Puma Court
Image: © Marathon Taken: 21 Jul 2012
Puma Court is an easily missed alley between Commercial Street and Wilkes Street in Spitalfields. It was here at the time of Jack the Ripper and still has the atmosphere of that time because of the absence of parked cars. Established at first in Blossom Street just west of here in 1728, this site for the Norton Folgate Almshouses was purchased in 1851, when the widening of Commercial Street to permit the increasing traffic from the London Docks required the demolition of the former premises. It was completed in 1860 and each of the buildings contained eight rooms on two storeys. Every resident received two shillings and sixpence a month, a ticket for a quartern loaf of bread per week, six hundredweight of coal on 21st December and materials for dinner on Christmas Day. There were fifteen single people and one married couple living here in 1897. For more information see http://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/01/13/at-norton-folgate-almshouses/
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