On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:45:17 +0100, Jean WOOD <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Josephine, > What a beautiful, elegant classical building. I hope it was comfortable > for the pensioners to live in. > This suggests that it must have been rather more populous at that time > than I supposed from the map 90 years later. Hi Jean, As your e-mail came through, I was reading about Colston's Almshouses in The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol by William Barrett (1789). Here's what Barrett wrote. ---------------------------------- Page 443 The PUBLIC CHARITIES and BENEFACTIONS given and founded by EDWARD COLSTON, Esquire. In BRISTOL On St. Michael's-hill An almshouse for 12 men and 12 women; the chief brother to receive 6s. the other 3s. per week besides coal, &c. To a chaplain 10l. per annum. The whole to be paid by fee farm rents on estates in Northumberland, Cumberland, and Durham, and by some houses and lands near the house. ----------------------------------- 10l. is 10 pounds The list of charities continue on the next page and a half Josephine