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An example of one such is Strand House in East Sussex. In the early Victorian era (see Poor Law), poverty was seen as a dishonourable state. As depicted by Charles Dickens, a workhouse could resemble a reformatory, often housing whole families, or a penal labour regime giving manual work to the indigent and subjecting them to physical ...
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]
The Toronto House of Industry building in 2009. In 1834, the United Kingdom passed a new Poor Law which created the system of Victorian workhouses (or "Houses of Industry") that Charles Dickens described in Oliver Twist. Sir Francis Bond Head, the new lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada in 1836, had been a Poor Law administrator before his ...
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 desire to treat all those in poverty via one policy stems from the same impulses that led to reform of poor laws in the 19th century.
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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