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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]
An investigation of the history and current state of the Poor Laws was made by Michael Nolan in his 1805 Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor. The work would go on to three subsequent editions in Nolan's lifetime (Nolan was elected an MP for Barnstaple in 1820), and stoked the discussion both within and outside of ...
They developed from the Workhouse and were run under the Poor law regime. The 1832 Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws recommended separate workhouses for the aged and infirm. Clause 45 of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 established that lunatics could not be held in a workhouse for more than a fortnight.
A history of British labour law: 1867-1945 (Hart Publishing, 2003) online. Bruce, Maurice. The Coming of the Welfare State (1966) online; Collinge, Peter, and Louise Falcini, eds. Providing for the Poor: The Old Poor Law, 1750–1834 (2022) online; Crowther, M. A. The Workhouse System 1834–1929: The history of an English social institution ...
The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 was passed to reform the way in which relief was given to the poor and resulted in the formation of Poor Law Unions across the country. Leigh Poor Law Union was established on 26 January 1837 in accordance with the Poor Law Amendment Act covering six townships, Astley, Atherton, Bedford, Pennington, Tyldesley with Shakerley and Westleigh of the ancient parish of ...
c. 29) abolished the last vestiges of the Poor Law, and with it the workhouses. [98] Many of the workhouse buildings were converted into retirement homes run by the local authorities; [100] slightly more than half of local authority accommodation for the elderly was provided in former workhouses in 1960. [101]
Notes Ampthill PLU Ampthill, Clophill, ... Exeter had a workhouse union dating back to 1697, which was never converted into a poor law union under the 1834 Act. [1] Name
Following the passage of the new poor law in 1834 problems emerged with the financing of the relief for the poor provided in that act.. Although the intention of the New Poor Law was to aggregate parishes into unions among which financial burden of building expensive workhouses was pooled, liability to the union was based on the composition of the parish.