. Vanishing England . IDJ/1 jr j - s E 7— > - ° 3 O P. tftUP^ 342 VANISHING ENGLAND entrance portico, and most of the London companies pro-vide in this way homes for their decayed members, sothat they may pass their closing years in peace andfreedom from care. Fishermen, who pass their lives in storm and dangerreaping the harvest of the sea, have not been forgottenby pious benefactors. One of the most picturesquebuildings in Great Yarmouth is the Fishermens Hos-pital, of which we give some illustrations. It was foundedby the corporation of the town in 1702 for the receptionof twenty old fis
. Vanishing England . IDJ/1 jr j - s E 7— > - ° 3 O P. tftUP^ 342 VANISHING ENGLAND entrance portico, and most of the London companies pro-vide in this way homes for their decayed members, sothat they may pass their closing years in peace andfreedom from care. Fishermen, who pass their lives in storm and dangerreaping the harvest of the sea, have not been forgottenby pious benefactors. One of the most picturesquebuildings in Great Yarmouth is the Fishermens Hos-pital, of which we give some illustrations. It was foundedby the corporation of the town in 1702 for the receptionof twenty old fishermen and their wives. It is a charm-ing house of rest, with its gables and dormer windowsand its general air of peace and repose. The old menlook very comfortable after battling for so many yearswith the storms of the North Sea. Charles II granted tothe hospital an annuity of £160 for its support, which waspaid out of the excise on beer, but when the duty wasrepealed the annuity naturally ceased. The old hospital at Kings Lynn was destroyed duringthe
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