Thomas White Cottage Homes, New Road, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire 16 August 2017

Thomas White was a successful dyer, entrepreneur and generous public benefactor who endowed the Cottage Homes in 1885 for “decayed gentlewomen or other females of small pecuniary means of the age of sixty upwards. The personal income of each to be not less than twenty pounds and not more than thirty five pounds per annum”. Run by a trust today, they still provide independent living for ladies over the age of 60 who have a connection with Bromsgrove, in fourteen unfurnished flats.