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Testun Gwreiddiol (Anodiad: EPW055309 / 2160893)
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Joseph Stalin stayed here for 2 weeks in 1907 while attending the fifth conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Rowton House, Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, an 816 bed hostel for poor and working class men opened in August 1902. Costing six pence per night, facilities included a dining room, reading room, smoking room, wash rooms, barber's shop, shoemaker's and tailor's rooms. Accommodation was in private cubicles containing a bed, chair, shelf and chamber pot. Established by Lord Rowton in 1892, there were eventually 7 in London, this was the fifth, plus another in Birmingham. See https://www.workhouses.org.uk/RowtonWhitechapel/ '
