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#2 Men at the four penny coffin, aka coffin house, ca. 1901.

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#2 Men at the four penny coffin, aka coffin house, ca. 1901.

Four Penny Coffin: One of the First Homeless Shelters in Victorian London

#2 Men at the four penny coffin, aka coffin house, ca. 1901.

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#3 Contemporary newspaper calls this London homeless shelter a “two penny coffin,” 1906.→

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