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Caleb Crowther blue plaque

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This blue commemorative plaque records: Caleb Crowther MD 1769-1849 built these almshouses for poor nonconformists to the design of William Shaw, railway contractor and fellow worshipper at Zion Chapel nearby. Recorded plaque organisation: Wakefield Civic Society.

From the Open Plaques record 5798

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