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A History of the County of Essex
… contributions. 2 The boys were accommodated in the workhouse from 1810 and the girls from 1815. 3 Woodford Green …
A History of the County of Essex
… the house called Manor House, built on the site of the workhouse, was the only building there until it, in turn, was … present shorter course, and also paid 1,000 towards a new workhouse. 102 In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the … 126 A fire-engine was purchased about 1820 and kept at the workhouse. 127 By 1882 there was a fire station, which soon …
A History of the County of Essex
… the millhouse at Woodford Row was leased for 21 years as a workhouse 13 and all pensioners were ordered into it. But … them to the contractor. In 1783 the vestry again opened a workhouse within the parish, leasing a building in Monkhams … of Woodford were receiving some relief. In 1820 a new workhouse was built on waste land in the north of the parish …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and an ornate staircase. 72 2. Site of Woodstock union workhouse The workhouse was built in 1836-7 on land formerly part of … was built on the north in 1891-3. 77 From 1930 the former workhouse was a home for the elderly, Hensington House. Most …
A History of the County of Oxford
… much of the close was probably taken up by the adjacent workhouse, later the site of the Olivet chapel. 81 In the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nature included a pest house of 1720 in Rectory Lane, a workhouse of 1778 on the north side of Oxford Street, and two … public buildings included the large union workhouse in Hensington Road, 29 several nonconformist … and 50 apartments in the builtup area. 44 The former union workhouse was demolished in 1969 and the site used later for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a 'neat stone building', was the former parochial workhouse on Oxford Street, the site of the later Olivet …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and rebuilding the town hall and shambles in 1766, and the workhouse of 1778 was bought with funds provided by the … contributions to the police station in 1861 98 and the workhouse chapel in 1863. In the mid 19th century the … township in Bladon parish, which included the union workhouse, Hensington House and its grounds, and a few …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and John Skinner, M.P. 1771-7, contributed towards a workhouse. 81 The duke usually recommended relatives and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… infants' school in Oxford Street, earlier the parochial workhouse, and there was a flourishing Sunday school. 79 The …