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  2. St Luke's Vestry - Wikipedia

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    The St Luke's Vestry was incorporated as local government body and appointed one member to the Metropolitan Board of Works. In 1867 a new vestry hall was completed at a cost of £6,400 (equivalent to £715,801 in 2023) on the St Luke's Workhouse site in the parish of St Leonard Shoreditch, fronting City Road.

  3. St Luke's Workhouse - Wikipedia

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    A local act in 1782 [a] enabled the St Luke's Vestry to build the new workhouse and offices just over the boundary in the parish of St Leonard Shoreditch at a cost of £2,000 (equivalent to £310,547 in 2023). [1] In 1867 a new vestry hall was completed on the site, fronting City Road. [2]

  4. List of London workhouses - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of workhouses in London. [1] In 1776 there were 86 workhouses in the metropolis plus about 12 pauper farms in Hoxton and Mile End [2]. Aldgate workhouse; Bethnal Green workhouse

  5. Shoreditch (parish) - Wikipedia

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    In 1872 the parish of "Shoreditch, St Agatha" was created from part of Saint James, Curtain Road. Later decreases in population led to a number of these parishes being combined in the 20th century. For instance, in 1915 Saint Agatha's parish was absorbed by St James, and in 1972 a merged parish of "Shoreditch, St Leonard with St Michael" was ...

  6. St Luke's, London - Wikipedia

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    St Luke's is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Islington. It lies just north of the border with the City of London near the Barbican Estate, and the Clerkenwell and Shoreditch areas. The area takes its name from the now redundant parish church of St Luke's, on Old Street west of Old Street station.

  7. Photographs from 1860s provide rare glimpse of bridge that ...

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    Nearly 40,000 Kansas Citians packed the banks of the Missouri River to celebrate the completion of the first railroad bridge across the Missouri River on July 3, 1869.

  8. Category:Populated places established in the 1860s - Wikipedia

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    Populated places (including cities, towns and villages) established (i.e., first settled or otherwise came into existence) in the 1860s. This category is for Populated places established in the 1860s .

  9. Why was a giant leg sticking out of a downtown Kansas City ...

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    Eschbacher used the library’s Sanborn Maps Collection, created by t he Sanborn Fire Insurance Co., with detailed maps of buildings dating to the 1890s. She found the leg building’s address there.