Thackeray's Almshouses inscription
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Thackeray's Almshouses inscription
Image: © Roger W Haworth Taken: 13 Oct 2012
The shield and inscription above the central doorways of Image The inscription reads: "Built and Endowed in 1840, for Six Aged Females, by Iohn Thackeray, of the Priory, Lewisham, who died on the 13th day of May 1851" The motto below the shield is "tenez le droit" - "hold the right".
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Image Location
Latitude
51.450547
Longitude
-0.017272