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A Dictionary of London
… seems to be all called Kennet Wharf now (P.O. Directory). Workhouse (The) See London Workhouse. Worley's Court West out of Blackfriars and north …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 17 persons received regular relief. 86 There was no parish workhouse, despite the field-name Work House Meadow near …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the remainder, for instructing 30 girls maintained in the workhouse; and she gave the further sum of 600, in the same … number to 30, when so many might not be at any time in the workhouse. An almshouse for five aged widows was founded …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the grounds are surrounded with thriving plantations. The workhouse of the Hardingstone union is situated in this …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the morning a sudden and dreadfull fire broke out in the workhouse of [illegible] the same together with his shop. …
A History of the County of Essex
… fulling mill and references to domestic spinning in the workhouse indicate that Worm- ingford was involved in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wormingford Education EDUCATION. A school was held in the workhouse in 1789. 8 In 1818 two small schools taught 60 …
A History of the County of Essex
… and early 19th heavy goods, like the coal brought for the workhouse in 1832, were imported by river. From the late … 16th-century Newhouse. 76 The Black House, formerly the workhouse, and Elizabeth's are part of a range of …
A History of the County of Essex
… town house and parish house, perhaps both names for the workhouse. In 1776 the workhouse master was paid 20 s. a week for 13 inmates from … fees, except for smallpox and fractures. Numbers in the workhouse ranged from 13 to 19 between 1789 and 1798, from 18 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1670 by building a house and barn on it. The parish workhouse was built on the site c. 1801 but the rent of £4 10 … was £35 a year, from the four cottages 93 to which the old workhouse had been converted. 94 By her will of 1675 Margaret …