Bust of General Charles Gordon, British soldier and administrator mb-code CMF1996cover Mercers' Hall had frontages on

Mercers' Hall had frontages on Cheapside and also Ironmonger Lane

South west view of Albion Mills

and the older child wears a large hat

carrying a box under his arm

left funds in his will for the extension of the almshouses after he died in 1719

Bust of General Charles Gordon, British soldier and administrator mb-code CMF1996cover Mercers' Hall had frontages onBust of General Charles Gordon, British soldier and administrator, 1886. Known as 'Chinese Gordon' because of his exploits in China in the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion, General Gordon (1833 1885) was killed at Khartoum on 26 January 1885 when the forces of the Mahdi overwhelmed the city.