Rickmansworth Almshouses - Mrs Coleman

[AlanBoyd]

Another photo on this page:

https://www.hertsmemories.org.uk/content/herts-history/towns-and-villages/rickmansworth/rickmansworth

[AlanBoyd]

This doesn’t help with Mrs Coleman but for background: I found the almshouses on the Valuation Survey of ~1910.

The site is described as "5 Almshouses, garden & prems."
Occupiers: Various
Owner: The Lord of the Manor, Capt J. B. Gilliat, Chorleywood Cedars
Interest of the Owner: Manorial Right to appoint the tenants.
"no rent is paid by the tenants"

The description states:
"5 old Cottages in High St in gd position
Accom,
Gd. Fl. no passage. Sitting rm f [fair?] & small bedrm f.
Outside Cor[rugated?] Iron shelter & 2 w.c's.
Very old built 1682 & now in on f. sound condition."

Valuation
"The whole value is in the site, the bdgs are only fit to be pulled down."

The site was valued at £357, then overall was rounded up to £460 to include a notional £103 for the structures [salvageable material?]

[Jool]

I wonder when the Almshouses became unoccupied.

1929...

According to an article in the Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette dated 29 April 1932, the almshouses had been closed for 3 years. I cannot post the original article as they are not allowed on "lookup" boards. Transcription below.

RICKMANSWORTH.
DEMOLITION.
A proposal has been made that the old almshouses in High Street, which have been closed for three years, shall be demolished.

[cordley]

I have now been through the Electoral Rolls for the period after 1921 until the Almshouses become vacant.

I have not found any Mrs Coleman registered at this address. 

From the photo it appears that the lady is standing at the doorway of No 100, which seems to have been the last one occupied, but on the ER by Mrs Agnes Gilbert who had been there at the 1921 census until her last reference in the ER of 1929, although she actually died on 2nd Oct 1928.

I guess I'll never find out who captioned the photo shown in "Rickmansworth: A Glimpse of the Past"  and how Mrs Coleman was named.
http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/books/books-2/book-0296-rickmansworth-glimpse.htm

I am intrigued by your reference to the "Valuation Survey of ~1910",  is that generally available online??

[AlanBoyd]

I access the Valuation Survey (the “1910 Lloyd George Domesday Book”) at thegenealogist.co.uk (subscription). I’m not aware of it being available online anywhere else.