Thank you for your kind words (and lovely publicity). I hope the book is a good distraction at least. Hang on in.

4/ Clergyman's Widows Almshouses. Spalden’s will also left money to build 'four neat and pretty houses for entertaining the widows of four clergymen of the Church of England'. Built in 1755 after a long legal case – Spalden had been declared bankrupt but his charitable donations were permitted.

3/ Spalden's Almshouses – ten almshouses endowed in the April 1710 will of coach harness maker Nicholas Spalden. He also endowed two local elementary schools, one for boys and one for girls.

2/ Pegg’s Almhouses adjacent: endowed in Christopher Pegg’s will of 1669 to build almshouses for ‘six poor inhabitants of the town’. The facing range of almshouses containing latrines was built in similar style in 1848.

Thanks for all that unpaid work from the past and - though you shouldn't have to do it for free - I'll be interested in what you write in the future.

2/ Secondly, Liverpool's interwar tenement housing of the 1930s - an innovative attempt to 'raise an A1 community in a properly planned township of flats':
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/liverpools...

It is though I'm not sure many of the tenants, glad or otherwise, would have thought of themselves as Peter Pan.

Avondale Square, built by the Corporation of the City of London, designed by Lancelot Keay and Basil G. Duckett & Partners, approved 1960

From a 1936 handbook on Liverpool & Merseyside

flic.kr/p/2qXVLSN

I think 'rus in urbe' might have been pushing it but lovely images and text. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you. I hope you find it interesting.

Thanks for that, Dave. Very interesting and inspiring and some fine final words from you.

I highly recommend the book.