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... former inmates of the Birmingham Union Workhouse which later became part Dudley Road Hospital Winson Green Tragic memories with rare footage of the harsh Victorian institution results in an evocative entitled 'Workhouse' narrated by Birmingham University ...
... City Hospital to all those poor folk who died in the workhouse and wore buried in paupers’ graves The inscription reads: “To all those who through no fault of their own were forced to enter the workhouse In life they endured misfortune in death may they ...
... News Thursday 25 June 1992 3 METSONEWS Joy as protesters halt razing of workhouse Reprieve for historic site EXCLUSIVE by STEPHEN DYSON CONTROVERSIAL plans to demolish the old workhouse at Dudley Road Hospital have been delayed after a storm of protests Following ...
... Birmingham Post His talk was entitled The Workhouse and The Poor' which gave us an insight into the Erdington workhouse It was built on the village green sometime between 1704 and 1714 Transfer That workhouse which was for the whole of the parish of Aston ...
... that year. At the start of the last war the FAP was in an outbuilding on the west side of the old workhouse in Arden Street. The main entrance to the workhouse was on the south side and had an imposing porch. Mr Robert Lunn was the town clerk of Stratford ...
... that rang out at the workhouse By POPPY BRADY A PAIR of historic bells which once rang out to summon people to a Birmingham workhouse more than a century ago may soon be a centrepiece at one of the city’s nugor hospitals The workhouse bells have gathered ...
... and was best known as the site of the House of Industry popularly known as the workhouse The workhouse and the yard are shown on the Terrier map of 1839 when the workhouse master was Thomas Weston although at the time of the Auntie Em Dear Sir WITH reference ...
... ThatMrlrnaaaofl canal A E)aj7 Christmas Day at the Rugby workhouse was a time for roast beef veal mutton plum Many newcomers younger residents of Ruebv will be surmised to know that the town still a workhouse throughout the 1930s which catered for not only the ...
... Birmingham University who hopes to record them in a study of the workhouse Workhouse took away my babies I WILL never ever forget the time I had to spend at the Birmingham Union Workhouse It was the winter of 1948 (yes as recently as that) I was 23 a mother ...
... midnight services which are now so prominent a feature many local Workhouse Christmas as ever a time for charity For of grim prison-like stone workhouse Street the day special: “The at the workhouse on Day a pretty chapel wards etc were decorated with holly ...
... actually working for it. Workhouses were to be run under a repressive regime so that no-one would actually want to go there, and with this in mind workhouses were deliberately built to reseal- ble prisons. The new Alcester workhouse was built in 1107 and ...
... historians and MPs are outraged at a decision to demolish a Victorian workhouse hidden from the public eye for decades The archway quadrangle and cells of the Birmingham Union Workhouse exist in near perfect condition at Dudley Road Hospital in Winson Green ...