... History alive in ‘workhouse’ HISTORY came alive in Ripon at the weekend when part of the old Sharow View workhouse, was opened to the public for the first time. Room at the Allhallowgate premises was one of a number of properties in Ripon being specially ...

... The Workhouse Museum of Poor Law THIS is Britain’s first workhouse museum in its authentic location. It is housed in the men’s casual wards of the former Ripon Union workhouse and portrays the treatment of vagrants 100 years ago. Visitors can imagine ...

... FORMER WORKHOUSE St Mary’s pictured in 1963 borough and nothing has been decided yet.” The Royal Mail is looking for new facilities because it says the existing sorting office at the back of Aberdeen Walk is overcrowded. If a new office was created ...

... nciluded a workhouse ¢ ~--Ng today in a comfortable private home of great character with modern fixtures and fittings throughout and adjoining BRANCH AGENTS FOR outbuildings with potential for Nationwide Building Socien leisure facilities/granny annexe ...

... MONDAY ® Ripon: Talk on the History of the Workhouses in Ripon and Yorkshire with Anthony Chadwick, assistant workhouse curator . 2.30 pm, Workhouse Museum. Free book in advance. Telephone (01423) 556188 ...

... been exhibited. The Guardians’ Room at the old Sharow View Workhouse is up a short flight of stone stairs reached through the archway prominently dated ‘ADIBS4’ and is adjacent to Workhouse Museum of Poor Law. ...

... Museum talk RIPON Museum Trust has arranged an afternoon talk at its Workhouse Museum on Monday at 2.30 pm. - Assistant curator Anthony Chadwick will be speaking on ‘The History of Workhouses in Ripon and Yorkshire.’ ...

... delivery office for Scar- Local historian Jack Binns said “a model workhouse” opened on the site in October 1859. He said: “Apparently the first inmates who were lucky were taken to the workhouse in a horse-driven omnibus which was provided by a Mr Reed, of ...

... Organised by Harrogate Round Table. MONDAY @® Ripon: Talk on the History of the Workhouses in Ripon and Yorkshire with Anthony Chadwick, assistant workhouse curator . 2.30 pm, Workhouse Museum. Free book in advance. Telephone (01423) 556188 little Hawaiian girl ...

... authentic touch to tomorrow's Christmas Fair on the site of the former Ripon Union Workhouse. The event takes place in the atmospheric setting of the Vagrants' Cell Block, The Workhouse Museum of Poor Law in Allhallowgate. Prizes will be awarded to the most appealing ...

... Forget the fair RIPON Museum Trust has announced the cancellation of its planned Christmas Fair in the Workhouse because it clashes with a similar event being held in the Cathedral on the same day, November 23. ...

... treadmill, the crank and picking oakum. The Ripon Workhouse, Museum of Poor Law in Allhallowgate was opened to the public in 1996 and is established in the Men's Casual Wards of the Victorian workhouse buildings. The 14 cells, the ablution rooms, the old ...