-
provision of
relief to
anyone who
refused to
enter a
workhouse. Some Poor Law
authorities hoped to run
workhouses at a
profit by
utilising the free
labour of their...
- the 19th-century
workhouse, and was
cited by the
Royal Commission on the poor law as the best
example among the
existing workhouses,
before the resulting...
-
second series of the
television drama Call the Midwife.
Although Britain's
workhouses were
officially abolished in 1930, many did not
close their doors until...
-
prompt and
careful attendance."
Where workhouses had been
designed for the indigent, by the late 1840s most
workhouses outside London and the
larger provincial...
- The
Lambeth Workhouse was a
workhouse in Lambeth, London. The
original workhouse opened in 1726 in
Princes Road (later,
Black Prince Road). From 1871 to...
- was
built on the site in the
early 1950s.
Millennium Memories of Whittlesey.
Whittlesey Society. "Whittlesey".
Workhouses.
Retrieved 28
October 2018....
- poverty-stricken
drastically increased and, like many
other workhouses in
Ireland at the time, the
workhouse experienced severe overcrowding. With the introduction...
- BBC News. 2015-01-19.
Retrieved 2021-02-01. "The
Workhouse in Clifton, Gloucestershire". www.
workhouses.org.uk.
Retrieved 2021-02-01. Cork,
Tristan (2019-05-10)...
- list of
workhouses in London. In 1776
there were 86
workhouses in the
metropolis plus
about 12
pauper farms in
Hoxton and Mile End
Aldgate workhouse Bethnal...
- The
Clerkenwell Workhouse stood on
Coppice Row,
Farringdon Road, in London, from 1727 to 1883. The
original workhouse was
built in 1727 by the Clerkenwell...
