black plaque · London

Black plaque № 59710

These buildings, sometime the Ironmongers Almshouses, were erected about 1715 under a bequest by Sir Robert Geffrye, Lord Mayor of London in 1686. In 1910 the buildings and land about them were bought by the London County Council aided by the Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council and many private persons. The garden was opened to the public in 1912. The buildings were adapted to serve as a museum and opened in 1914.

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