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The 'Red House' at Framlingham Castle in Suffolk was founded as a workhouse in 1664. [6] " The workroom at St James's workhouse", from The Microcosm of London (1808). The workhouse system evolved in the 17th century, allowing parishes to reduce the cost to ratepayers of providing poor relief.
Belfast Union Workhouse was established along with the Poor Law Union under the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 56). The buildings on Lisburn Road in Belfast were designed by George Wilkinson, who, having designed many workhouses in England, had now become the architect for the Poor Law Commission in Ireland. [3]
Easingwold Union Workhouse is a historic building in Easingwold, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. A workhouse was first recorded in Easingwold in 1756. A Poor Law Union was created in 1837, and it constructed a new workhouse, which was completed in 1838. It was designed by J. B. and W. Atkinson, and its
People queuing at S. Marylebone workhouse circa 1900. In England, Wales and Ireland (but not in Scotland), [1] "workhouse" has been the more common term.Before the introduction of the Poor Laws, each parish would maintain its own workhouse; often these would be simple farms with the occupants dividing their time between working the farm and being employed on maintaining local roads and other ...
Plan view of Kempthorne's cruciform design for a workhouse accommodating 300 paupers. Sampson Kempthorne (1809–1873) was an English architect who specialised in the design of workhouses, before his emigration to New Zealand.
In 1829 the workhouse became independently managed and in 1836 it was entrusted to the Board of Guardians of the Strand Poor Law Union. This was the first in a long series of name changes: over the course of its history the building has been known as: St Paul Covent Garden Workhouse or simply Covent Garden Workhouse; Strand Union Workhouse [7]
The gatehouse in 2017, just before demolition. The top of the "arch of tears" is just visible. A new infirmary building, built to increase the capacity of the old one, was constructed between 1850 and 1852 under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, to designs by John Jones Bateman and G Drury. [1]
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