Four Alms houses at the top of Cow Lane, Bramcote, Nottingham. They are shown in winter with snow on the ground.
In 1650, the Manor and its lands passed to the Sherwin family, under whom the village prospered, mainly thanks to Notts. clergyman William Lee, who, in 1589, invented a knitting machine for making stockings, turning the village into a centre for domestic industry. By 1844, the village was home to 33 of these stocking frames, housed in specially constructed three-storey cottages with extra large windows on the third floor. The last surviving examples of these buildings in the village are at 139/143 Broomhill Terrace. The Sherwins also provided money for two schools, the church of St Michael and All Angels, and the quaint Alms Houses at the top of Cow Lane, that were homes for four poor women of the parish.
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Location: Bramcote, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Stuart Crump Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
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