It was this tradition that street sweeper Henry Croft, who was raised in a workhouse orphanage in Somers Town, north-west of the City of London, is said to have drawn on when he created a suit completely covered in mother-of-pearl buttons in a bid to help his efforts to raise funds f...
There were a high number of deaths in Poland Street (21), and many of these occurred at the workhouse which is represented by the black rectangle in the above map. Some of the deaths recorded by Snow at the workhouse are really sad, as often these would be recorded as “female unknown,...
•A free display featuring the first coin bearing a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II has opened at the British Museum.Part of the celebrations marking the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, The Asahi Shimbun DisplayMary Gillick: modelling The Queen’s portraitshowcases the production and reception of the ...
If you would like to explore the history of Puddle Dock, Thames Street and the area between Queen Victoria Street and the Thames, one place has just become free on my walk this coming Thursday, the 25th click here for details and booking, and one place on Sunday the 28th, click here fo...
The Lunacy Act used the word "control" in several contexts: concerning the administrative control of asylums; when a person in the community was "not under proper care and control, or is cruelly treated"; and for defining the need for urgent admission to a workhouse when behaviour due to a...
Lee was a Civil Parish whose bounds were‘beaten’ in Running Past in 2020– following an Ordnance Survey map from the 1890s. It was a small parish and so for a lot of the limited range of public services offered they were undertaken jointly with other parishes – the workhouse as we ...
The old workhouse still stands. It’s now called Albro Castle and is a private property with holiday lets. I checked the baptism records and couldn’t find any babies who matched. So… no surname, no recorded parents, died at the workhouse. Would I be right in picturing a desperate woman...
Henry Boulton, Chick Mx Workhouse 48 yrs — St Luke, Chelsea, Middlesex Burial date: 12 Apr 1779 Henry Bolton — St Giles in the Fields, London Burial date: 20 Jan 1762 Henry Bolton, Barn[–]ge Street — St Mary’s Lewisham, Kent ...
"In fact they ridiculed her, and with no one to turn to, she ended up in the Luton workhouse." His mother appealed to the Foundling Hospital to take in her baby as soon as it was born, and in a scene of almost unbelievable cruelty, was made to stand and explain herself, heavily ...
In the 17th century, the lane was known as for its signwriters and broadsheet creators as well as for a famous cockpit which was visited by none other than diarist Samuel Pepys in 1663. It was also the location of a workhouse. Prominent buildings which have survived also includeSt Andrew ...