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"THIS HOUSE ERECTED An Dom MDCCXXX. if any would not work neither Should he eat." What is now the Vestry House Museum was once the Walthamstow Workhouse, erected in 1730. Vestry Road.

Originally the House of Refuge for orphans, run by the Sisters of Charity, it has also been a workhouse and a laundry. During the Great Hunger in the nineteenth century, destitute women came here for shelter.