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A History of the County of Shropshire
… hundred in 1255 19 and 1592. 20 By 1748 there was a parish workhouse in the town, farmed by Thomas Hazlehurst, 21 a … by a vestry committee or board, which employed a salaried workhouse governor and matron and sat fortnightly to receive … a gradual fall 34 as full employment returned. In 1834 the workhouse had c. 40 residents, none of them able-bodied, and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Since 1859 there had been weekly meetings at the workhouse. In 1889 a Children's Gospel Hall was added at the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… after-care centre. A children's home was created at the workhouse in 1914. 30 In 1916 the children were transferred …
A History of the County of Essex
… 164 From c. 1808 to 1836 it was used as a joint workhouse for the parishes of Aveley, Rainham, and West …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1768, probably unendowed, may have later become the parish workhouse sited on the heath edge south-west of New Church … xi; ibid. 1830-4, H.C. 444, p. 60 (1835), xlvii. 'Workhouse field' lay nearby in 1843. E.R.O., D/P 59/1/4; …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the board of guardians banned the parish magazine from the workhouse because the chaplain considered its contents to be …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and in 1738-9 nails were apparently being made in the workhouse. 43 The hand-wrought nail trade reached its …
A History of the County of Stafford
… church in April 1735 and concerned with the provision of a workhouse. Fiftythree of those present opposed the use of a … of the poor, while fourteen supported its expenditure on a workhouse. Similar numbers attended further meetings on the … records. The meeting-place was normally the church or the workhouse, but occasionally parishioners' houses, including …
A History of the County of Stafford
… hospital, originated in the infirmary added to the union workhouse in 1884. Improvements were begun in 1925, and the … The hospital includes surviving buildings of the former workhouse as well as more recent buildings. 53 Lyttleton Hall …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 18th-century churchwardens' accounts. It was not then a workhouse, 36 but a poor-house, or parish almshouse. In 1807 … 37 A part of these buildings had begun to be used as a workhouse by 1815. 38 Another part was used as a parish cage, … cost an average of £292 a year. 46 Able-bodied men in the workhouse were employed by the parish surveyor on the roads, …