The asylums of 1700s, Victorian and Edwardian times have not had the best of reputations while workhouses for the poor were often brutal places, no better than prisons. Records show that the ...

Workhouses sprung up all over Britain in the early 1800s as poverty, starvation and disease plagued the country's working poor. In 1834, the Poor Law Amendment Act combined parishes into Poor Law ...

By the Victorian era, the workhouse was in its prime, as entire families, as well as the homeless, old and others were interred in the wave of buildings initiated by the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 — ...

Work and Suffolk Workhouses The New Poor Law The dual system of parish workhouses and Houses of Industry ended in 1834. Population increases, rising unemployment in rural areas and economic ...

Images show the hospital which closed in 2018 after originally being built as a workhouse for the poor in 1834, falling apart throughout with mementos of NHS rehabilitation posters and even ...

The 1834 law formally established the early Victorian workhouse system. The New Poor Law commissioners proposed that all workhouses should allow for the segregation of paupers.

After the responsibility of parishes providing relief to the poverty-stricken was transferred to newly formed unions under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, The Medway Union Workhouse was formed.

Dingle Union Workhouse, fever hospital, school, and dispensary were opened in August 1850. It was run by the local Board of Guardians assisted by the Order of Mercy from 1889. In February 1922 the ...

An 1834 amendment to Britain’s Poor Law tightened the restrictions around who could use a workhouse; under the new rules, anyone who wanted help had to live in a workhouse, and could not receive ...

On 20th December 1899, an inquest concluded into the death of two patients, 65-year-old William Wharton and 60-year-old John Smith, at the Crumpsall Workhouse.