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Fredrick Winsor) on an industrial scale. The works operated from about 1820 to 1871, when
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The ten "ancient inhabitants" were obliged to fill these offices unless they paid a fine excusing themselves. The
Ancient Inhabitants appear to have replaced their numbers through co-opting residents of the Liberty. After a
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Folgate Almshouses, opened 1860, listing ten trustees. The buildings replaced earlier almshouses of 1728, and stand in Puma Court (formerly Red Lion Court), on the east side of
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