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celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2002, it decided to build a new nursing home at nearby
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infirm and diseased poor". The growth of the town's port and the textile industry had been drawing in poor, often destitute, labourers and their families, from the surrounding districts. The town's
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to prevent a more serious case of the disease. When in 1800, the Poor House quickly filled again to full capacity, the
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