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| Picture No | 10221981 |
| Date | 1870 |
| Description | Strangers' Home, Limehouse, London 1870 |
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A scene of the inside of the institution called - The Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders - West India Dock Road, Limehouse in London. This was not a free house but for 14 shillings a week foreign workers, such as sailors, servants and so on could enjoy the comforts of a well managed boarding or lodging house. It was founded in 1856 and paid for both by Indian and English gentry and businessmen.
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| Source | The Illustrated London News. 5 March 1870, page 253 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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