The 3,649 sq ft home based in Great Snoring was built 200 years ago and once accommodated 250 people as the Walsingham Union workhouse. But from 1930 the remaining 30 inmates were transferred from ...

A photograph of the skeletal remains of a three-year-old child, taking during the archaeological excavation at the Kilkenny Union Workhouse in May 2006. Source: Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd. The Poor ...

Kingston General, in Beverley Road, closed its doors at the end of 2000 and was later demolished to make way for Endeavour ...

Vandeleur was known for his widespread evictions in the Kilrush Union. The English workhouse system was introduced to Ireland in 1838 as part of the Irish Poor Law created, in theory, to help ...

Norfolk Museums Service A bedpan, bandage and scissors made of fabric by Connie Flynn will be on display According to Norfolk Museums, between 1777 and 1948, Mitford and Launditch Union Workhouse ...

The house was built by George Byfield and came to be known as the Union Workhouse – it being a union of several city parishes. The original intention was to run it as a home and occupational ...

In the 1880s the Billericay Union Workhouse was known as the ‘tramps favourite’ due to the light work its inmates had to carry out and the excellent fare it served up. This was to change ...

The workhouse was built in the town of Birr. At the time, the official name of both the town and the union was Parsonstown. The guardian in question went on to say that ‘while all this pity was ...

Knatchbull's General Workhouse Act of 1723 allowed parishes to erect workhouses, smaller parishes forming a union with neighbours to do so. By 1776 about two thousand workhouses existed in England.

“We intend to ask the Minister for Communities to have this decision reviewed.” The Belfast Union Workhouse closed in 1948, after more than a century in operation. Families who went in were ...

Today, Cambridge's Mill Road is one of the busiest in the city, with hundreds of people traversing it as they go about their business. It has completely transformed from the quiet country lane ...

Set back slightly from the main road behind public gardens, Ditchburn Place was built in 1838 as the Cambridge Union Workhouse. Nowadays, it sits behind an Indian archway salvaged by a member of ...