-
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...
-
prompt and
careful attendance."
Where workhouses had been
designed for the indigent, by the late 1840s most
workhouses outside London and the
larger provincial...
- 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...
-
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...
-
country was
divided into Poor Law
Unions which each had a
workhouse. The
establishment of
workhouses in Poor Law
Unions ****ured that only
those in the deepest...
-
authorities except in a
workhouse.
Conditions in
workhouses were to be made
harsh to
discourage people from claiming.
Workhouses were to be
built in every...
-
brought in.
Under this system,
relief would only be
given in
workhouses, and
conditions in
workhouses would be such as to
deter any but the
truly destitute from...
- 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...
- London", The
Workhouse website "The
Workhouse:
Newington St Mary".
Retrieved 12
November 2020. "Public ****istance Institution", Glossary,
workhouses.org.uk...
- were
several small workhouses in the area of the Poor Law
Union dating from the 18th century. The
Pennington township had a
workhouse in King Street, now...
