A Comprehensive History of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham
A Comprehensive History of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham
In Victorian England the Workhouse formed the basis of society. The poor and destitute entered Workhouses to receive free health care and food. But in a soci...
Whitehaven , Low Road.
The records of the Sheffield Workhouse were destroyed in the bombing of Sheffield during the Second World War. However, using archive material, newspaper reports and the remaining Guardians’ minutes from 1890, this book reveals the story of this feared local institution. Famously contentious, the Sheffield Board of Guardians often went against the wishes of the […]
A Comprehensive History of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham
It was situated just past the old cemetery on the Whitehaven to St Bees Road. The building was huge and had its own hospital, staff dwellings and horticultural grounds. ( see other photo also ).
A Comprehensive History of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham
A bit of decay at what is possibly one of Cornwall's most depressing sites. A former workhouse that is now and abatoir! Feb 2007
A Comprehensive History of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham
Read 35 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. The diary of Edith Lorrimer, England 1871 I was shown the laundry - a vast noisy sunless ro…
When I visited the churchyard of All Saints, Isleworth, earlier in the year, I'd gone in search of the plague pit there. However, whilst exploring the burial ground, I also came across a headstone that commemorated a person who would probably have disappeared into an unmarked paupers' grave were it not for the great age…
Visiting Carrickmacross Workhouse in Ireland gives meaning to the expression 'the poorhouse' and puts the Irish Famine into context for visitors.
This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.
