Six Poor Travellers house – Rochester
If the Walls of the Six Poor Travellers house could talk! It seems that many local people walk past The Six Poor Travellers‘ house on Rochester High Street (97 High […]
Medway Epidemics
and how they helped evolve our ‘health services’ From Leper houses that ‘hid’ victims – Almshouses – Pest House – Quarantine ships – Infirmaries – to St Williams that was […]
First Children’s Home in Medway? 1615!
Artist impression of the uniform of the almshouse children Under the 1601 Poor Law passed by Elizabeth I, local authorities were required to make provision for the bringing up of poor […]
