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Workhouse Children: Infant and Child Paupers Under the Worcestershire Poor Law, 1780–1871. Sutton Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7509-1429-1. Downing, J. (1725). An Account of Several Work-houses for Employing and Maintaining the Poor. Joseph Downing. OL 22843166M. Higginbotham, Peter (2007). Workhouses of the Midlands. The History Press.
He designed workhouses in Abingdon, Andover, Bath, Crediton, Hastings, and Newhaven. He also designed some Gothic churches, including Holy Trinity (1834–35) (destroyed by bombing in 1940) and All Saints (1839), both in Rotherhithe , [ 2 ] and St James, in Upton Street, Gloucester, originally built as a chapel-of-ease to the nearby church of ...
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]
Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 73 years of broadcasting it is fifth on the list of longest-running American television serie
Initially, Rye Union made use of existing parish workhouse accommodation at Rye, Northiam and Brede. Former parish workhouses at Beckley, Brede, Icklesham, Playden, Udimore and Winchelsea were sold off in the late 1830s and construction of a new purpose-built workhouse for 436 inmates began in 1843 with the first admissions taking place in 1845 ...
The building that became St. Thomas' Hospital was originally a workhouse known as the Stockport Union Workhouse [1] (though some records list the name as Shaw Heath Workhouse). [2] The building was designed by Henry Bowman [3] and opened on Christmas Day in 1841. It was intended to house 690 inmates. [4]
The Union Building in Aldershot in 1870. The Union Building on Hospital Hill in Aldershot in Hampshire is a Grade II listed building on the Register of Historic England. [1] A former sub-manor of the Tichborne Family, it was later used as the Aldershot Workhouse and as the District School set up in 1849/50 by two poor law unions, referred to as the Union Building in the 1851 Census.
Albro Castle is a former workhouse in the north of the village of St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The building was Grade II* listed in 1992 as one of the least-altered workhouses in Wales. After closing as a workhouse in 1935 the buildings were bought by Pembrokeshire County Council and in 1948 were sold into private ownership.