The Workhouse, Southwell
The Workhouse, Southwell The Workhouse, in the town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England ... Trust. It is a typical 19th century workhouse, built in response to the New Poor ... the National Trust as the best-preserved workhouse in England. The acquisition of the Workhouse reflects the National Trust's wish ...
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Image:Workhouse.jpg
Image:Workhouse.jpg Image File history File links Metadata Workhouse.jpg Summary public archive Licensing This work ...
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In the Workhouse - Christmas Day
In the Workhouse - Christmas Day In the Workhouse - Christmas Day, better known by its first ... line It is Christmas Day in the workhouse is a dramatic monologue published by George ...
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Poor Law
... Indoor relief was normally given at a 'workhouse', often called a 'poorhouse'. These were institutions ... or were forced) to stay in the workhouse, and as such were almost prisoners of ... was any relief given outside of a 'workhouse' or 'poorhouse'. It was often given as ... the many able-bodied poor in the workhouse, which provided accommodation at the same time ... poor. The eighteenth century The eighteenth-century workhouse movement began at the end of ...
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Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
... the independent labourer. The other was the "workhouse test", that relief should only be available in the workhouse. The reformed workhouses were to be uninviting ... it had been partly watered down. The workhouse test and the idea of "less eligibility ... outdoor' relief (relief given outside of a workhouse) should be abolished - was never implemented. The ... be for the poor to enter a workhouse. The workhouses themselves were to be ...
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User:Giano/Aylesbury Arch.
... to the town. These were the Union Workhouse in 1844, and the County Gaol in 1845. The Union Workhouse Aylesbury's Union Workhouse circa 1850 Victorian workhouses were a tidy ... strictly separarted into different parts of the workhouse according to age and sex. In defence of the workhouse system it can be said that ...
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Mount Street Gardens
... named Oliver's Mount . Burial ground and workhouse An old map showing the gardens as ... 103 Mount Street, was the parish's workhouse, wherein the poor were given work, board ... grew, so did the demand upon the workhouse, and it became so overcrowded that in ... the decision was taken to move the workhouse to a new site, spurred on also ... In 1883, some land for the new workhouse on Buckingham Palace Road was bought ...
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User talk:Tarquin Binary
... a pic of, at Homerton was a workhouse before it was a hospital. (I have ... It has a shot of the Poplar Workhouse, but this was on the West India ... 18:44, 30 September 2005 (UTC) Poplar Workhouse was demolished in 1960, see http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Poplar/Poplar.shtml (some good overall London ... see http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/map/london.html, note this is ...
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Talk:Poor Law
Talk:Poor Law "poorhouse" vs. "workhouse"? The section "The act of 1601" makes ... both the word "poorhouse" and the word "workhouse". The text implies they are not the ... poorhouse" was often used fairly synonymously with "workhouse" to refer to pre-1834 parish workhouses ... poorhouse" was the usual name for a workhouse. (Poorhouses established under the 1845 Scottish Poor ... the destitute, old and sick) and the workhouse (a place where hard labour was ...
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List of United Kingdom locations: W
... Worgret - Dorset 50.67N 02.14W SY9086 Workhouse Common - Norfolk 52.72N 01.47E TG3520 Workhouse End - Bedfordshire 52.15N 00.39W TL1052 Workhouse Green - Suffolk 51.99N 00.76E TL9037 Workhouse Hill - Essex 51.94N 00.89E TL9931 ...
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