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Mildenhall_Almshouses_May_1997> Simply click to enlarge... then use the [Back] button to returnAlmshouses Built

1722 Sir Thomas Hanmer, Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord of the Manor of Mildenhall builds the almshouses in the churchyard and gives them to the town. 

Mildenhall_Almshouses_plaque> Simply click to enlarge... then use the [Back] button to returnTranslation of inscription on the plaque:  For the relief of the poverty and old age Thomas Hanmer built and gave [this] in the Year of our Lord 1722

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