Louth's "Town Clock": on the lost Tudor Town Hall from 1714, then the prison, finally ending up on this 19C warehousepic.twitter.com/L0OSqvc9TM
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The Louth 'Union Workhouse' as it appeared on Brown's Panorama of 1847. Workhouse opened 1837, now Louth Hospital...pic.twitter.com/yJEvviwzkz
Louth unusual in retaining its 18thC Poor House/'House of Industry' too, on Northgate, established in 1734...pic.twitter.com/YNTgMGxz5N
Sadly, the 16-17thC poor house on Spital Hill, which was housed in the former 14th-16thC leper hospital, has long since been demolished
@caitlinrgreen Some of them are quite beautiful and cast in "S" shapes, etc. Hey, it beats collecting bottle caps!
@GeorgeRick1 I'll keep an eye out for any nice examples for you ;)
@caitlinrgreen Thank you, Caitlin! They're a bit thin on the ground over here, so to speak.
@GeorgeRick1 A couple from Louth :) 1: made by Joseph Morton's iron foundry, Louth, on side of pub bearing his name >pic.twitter.com/ZYoS5cHTfx
@GeorgeRick1 2: made by Salah Cartwright, ironmonger of Mercer Row, Louth, in 19thC; on side of house in Bridge St.pic.twitter.com/LCYVWQuG0T
@caitlinrgreen Was 'a mercer' a cloth merchant? Was this sheep country then; maybe still?
@Harry_cartoons Oh, definitely---in fact, Louth was one of the great cloth-producing centres of medieval eastern England! :)
@Harry_cartoons (something that gets touched on in an in-prep blogpost based on a lecture I gave a couple of yrs back :) )
@caitlinrgreen Hope we can see it soon. :)
@Harry_cartoons Def fairly soon, but need to source some usable pics :)
@caitlinrgreen Well that's time shifting for you! But seriously, the 1585 Town Hall was a magnificent building. Tragic that it's gone.
@GeorgeRick1 It would have been fascinating to see it, but was def an odd place to build it--nearly blocked the main street in the town! :)
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