Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits: the Penny Alms Houses, Lancaster, UK.

William Penny (1646–1716) was a mayor and alderman whose bequest provided the funds to build and endow 12 small houses and a chapel for ‘poor indigent ancient men and women’. Up to two widows were accommodated if enough men could not be found. They received the house, an allowance, a suit of clothes and the services of a chaplain.

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