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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Abel Collin, Albert Ball Memorial Homes, Beamsley Hospital, Blue House, Frome, Bond's Hospital, Buntingford almshouses, Canning Terrace, Church of St. Julien, Southampton, Colstons Almshouses, Crewe Almshouses, Nantwich, Donnington Hospital, Dr Milley's Hospital, Faversham Almshouses, Ford's Hospital, Coventry, Foster's Almshouses, Bristol, Frances Longden Almshouses, Free Watermen and Lightermen's Almshouses, Gray's Almshouses, Taunton, Helyar Almshouses, Ingram House, List of almshouses in the United Kingdom, Livery Dole, Mary Hardstaff Homes, Merchant Venturers Almshouses, Miss Cullen's Almshouses, Monmouth Alms Houses, Norris Almshouses, Parmiter's Almshouse & Pension Charity, Partis College, Bath, Plumptre Hospital, Sackville College, Sexey's Hospital, Sir John Robinson's Almshouses, Sloswicke's Hospital, St Margaret's Almshouses, St Nicholas' Almshouses, Tollemache Almshouses, Vachel Almshouses, Wandesford House, Widows' Almshouses, Nantwich, Wilbraham's Almshouses, Nantwich, Williams' Hospital, William Woodsend Memorial Homes, Willoughby Almshouses, Wright's Almshouses, Nantwich. Excerpt: The Widows' Almshouses, also known as the Wilbraham or Wilbraham's Almshouses and as the Widows' Hospital, are former almshouses for six widows in Nantwich, Cheshire, England. They are located at numbers 26-30 on the north side of Welsh Row, on the junction with Second Wood Street (at ). The almshouses were founded by Roger Wilbraham in 1676-7 in memory of his deceased wife in three existing cottages built in 1637; they were the earliest almshouses in the town for women. In 1705, Wilbraham also founded the Old Maids' Almshouse for two old maids in a separate building (now demolished) on Welsh Row. They remained in use as almshouses until the 1930s. The timber-framed Widows' Almshouses building, which is listed at grade II, has subsequently been used as a cafe, public house, night club, restaurant, wine bar and hotel. Nikolaus Pevsner considers Welsh Row "the best street of Nantwich." The street has many listed buildings and is known for its mixture of architectural styles, including other black-and-white cottages, Georgian town houses such as Townwell House and number 83, and Victorian buildings such as the former Grammar School, Primitive Methodist Chapel and Savings Bank. Two other former almshouses remain on Welsh Row: the Wilbraham's Almshouses were founded in 1613 by Wilbraham's ancestor Sir Roger Wilbraham, and the Tollemache Almshouses were built in 1870 to replace these by John Tollemache, a descendant of Sir Roger Wilbraham. Roger Wilbraham (1623-1707/8) was born at Townsend House on Welsh Row, and inherited the family's Nantwich property on the death of his elder brother in 1649. He was the great-nephew of his namesake Sir Roger Wilbraham, founder of the Wilbraham's Almshouses. He married in 1656; his wife Alice was the daughter of another Roger Wilbraham from the Dorfold branch of the family. In 1675-76, Wilbraham experienced personal tragedy: his two eldest sons died within a few months of each other in 1675, and his wife died on 8 September 1676, the an
