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The Geffrye Museum
It is the complex of almshouses founded in 1714 by Ironmongers’ Company in memory of Sir Robert Geffrye, a wealthy member who left a large part of his estate for philanthropic purposes. Once there were 14 houses with accommodation for 50 pensioners in total, each having their own room.
By 1912, however, the once rural almshouses had been swallowed by urbasisation and the pensioners were moved out of London, the local council seeing the need most of all to preserve the front garden as a badly needed “lung” for the area. The building was re-opened in 1918 as a museum of furniture and woodwork.
Today it styles itself as a museum of “the middling sort”, focusing on domestic interiors and gardens from Tudor to modern times.