Oh No It's Raining Again

Rainsoaked, umbrella bearing tourists outside the Stratford on Avon Almshouses this afternoon.
I hope they are enjoying their trip to Stratford.

'Ten almshouses were built in 1417-18 by the Guild of the Holy Cross (amazingly, accounts survive of payments for the costs of the building including 26s 8d for timber & carpenter and 7 cartloads of stone at 3d a load). The almshouses were originally for old or needy members of the guild. The reformation led to the suppression of many almshouses but the Church St Almshouses managed to survive. In 1553 they were transferred to Stratford upon Avon Corporation and enlarged in order to provide homes for 24 elderly townsfolk.'