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Crump's Almshouses

The eight Crump Almshouses are in Eldon Street in Walsall in the England’s West Midlands Combined Authority.

John Farrington Crump was a solicitor in Walsall. He set up a deed in 1886 to have three alms houses built. They each had a bed-sitting room and a communal scullery and lavatory. The present building is a new-build and consists of eight flats. They and are now run by the Harper’s, Marsh and Crumps Almshouses Charity.

There was a cluster of almshouses in a small area of Walsall. Crump’s, Harper’s, Henry Boy’s and Marsh’s are extant. Cox’s Almshouses which was between Bullock’s Row and St Matthew’s Close and the Victor Street Almshouses have gone.