The Workhouse sat along Freeport Road between O’Hara and Blawnox, and farmland covered more than 1,100 acres where RIDC Park now sits. The lower wall was nearly 10 feet tall and was mostly ...

It was the kind of castle best seen from the outside. Kansas City’s workhouse, built in 1897 at 2001 Vine Street served as the city’s municipal jail — housing petty offenders, debtors and ...

The shadow of Birkenhead Workhouse would once have loomed menacingly ... wheeling dirt, breaking stones and picking oakum - separating the fibres from old rope. This meant that able-bodied people ...

Children in the workhouse did get treats for Xmas. News you can trust since 1873. Sign In. Subscribe. St Nicholas Church in West Boldon in 13 memorable views. ... Stone-breaking in Sunderland.