Almshouses have a long history and provide a significant contribution to the housing stock in the Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The Juxons Almshouses arose as a result of a bequest by John Juxon who bought the Manor of East Sheen and West Hall in 1619. After his father died in 1626 his son John built the almshouses in 1631 at the end of Church Path. The photograph below shows the original almshouses with the mock tudor house on the Upper Richmond Road in the background.

Part of Church Path which leads into Church Avenue is still wide to the right of the photograph. It is thought there was an air raid shelter there in the 1940s but there is now no trace of it.

Juxon’s Almshouses were rebuilt on Milton Road just round the corner in 1911.

And now