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A Dictionary of London
… covered by the Victoria Embankment (q.v.). Bride's (St.) Workhouse On the east side of Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward … (S. 398). It was given by Edward VI. to the City for a workhouse. Found burdensome as attracting vagrants to London. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… or places, and contains a population of 10,981; the workhouse is a plain brick building. Bridge-End BRIDGE-END, a …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 1705) gave a rent charge of 40 s., initially for the new workhouse, but it later passed to the corporation. The …
A History of the County of Somerset
… roll was 263. 19 In 1846 there was a school in the union workhouse where a master and mistress taught 20 girls and 38 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… for many years. The overseers employed the governor of the workhouse as their assistant. A salaried poor-rate collector … was rebuilt and part may have been used thereafter as a workhouse. 93 The whole building was a parish poorhouse in … rate there. 96 In 1837 it was replaced by the union workhouse in Chilton Road, which in 1948 became a hospital. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… commodious market-house was built on the site of the old workhouse, in 1829. By the act of the 2nd of William IV., …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (12 per cent) occasionally. No one was relieved in a workhouse, though 27 was spent on materials for employing the …