Keelmans Hospital (Newcastle upon Tyne) | interesting place

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The almshouses paid for and built in 1701 by the keelmen (boatmen who transported coal on the River Tyne) to house the poor and aged keelmen.

The building is now used as accommodation for students of Northumbria University.

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