Almshouses in Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, London, c1720. Artist: Johannes Kip

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Almshouses in Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, London, c1720. View from the east of the almshouses and school in Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, established by the Haberdashers' Company under the provisions of Robert Aske's will dated 1689; they were most frequently known as Aske's Hospital (sometimes as Haberdashers' Almshouses). The building was designed by Robert Hooke.

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