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

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

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

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

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←#2 Men at the four penny coffin, aka coffin house, ca. 1901.
#4 These rows of “coffins” were the men’s sleeping quarters in London’s Burne Street hostel, 1900.→

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