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Colfe's Almshouses, Lewisham High St, Lewisham, c. 1890 & c. 1910

Colfe's Almshouses, Lewisham High St, Lewisham, c. 1890

Colfe's Almshouses, Lewisham High Street, Lewisham, c. 1910

  

Map of Colfe's Almshouses - Click to enlarge

Two views of Colfe's Almshouses 20 years apart.

Abraham Colfe was vicar of Lewisham from 1610 to 1657. He founded the school that still bears his name in 1652.

The Leathersellers' Company took over the school after his death and built the almshouses c.1665. Follwing wartime damage, they were demolished in 1958.

The site was just to the north of Lewisham Hospital at the location of the present Registrar's Office.
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