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... 19th century workhouses in Amersham. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 had made the word 'workhouse' one of the most feared and despised of the Victorian era. The Act required groups of parishes to form unions and provide a central workhouse for the poor ...
... An inspector Poor Law Amendment Act of 1838 made these comments on the small that there should be a large central parish workhouse then at Penn. one covering several small parishes. I find it impossible to describe The idea was so unpopular that the misery ...
... lane. • • • AMERSHAM Workhouse was built in 1838 after the Poor Law Amendment Act made provision for the care of those who could not look after themselves. It later became Amersham General Hospital ...
... property records the 17705, have been pretested to lists of stolen property showed he was able to hang on to those. and workhouse inventories Chiltern Open Air Museum, the volunteers what kinds of Straw plaiting is obviously not Chalfont St Giles. clothes ...
... em CHALFONT ST PETER VILLAGE - £215,000 A skilfully restored and superbly modernised period home, originally a pair of workhouse cottages and with masses of exposed beams and period features. Dining room. lounge. study. breakfast room. splendid kitchen ...
... Street site was originally intended to be one of three workhouses, situated in Amersham, Chesham and Chenies, created as part of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. But the management of three workhouses soon became too much and on March 30 1835 an elected ...
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... unfortunate patients usually spent the final days of their lives being tended by paupers in the freezing cold wards of the workhouse. A shocked inspection team in 1865 brought an end to these appalling conditions. In 1868 the sick were separated from the ...
... to present day greets you on entering Amersham Antiques & Collectors Centre. Thousands of items are housed in this former workhouse which, in parts, dates back to the 16th century. ...
... also repaired bikes and cars and was the town's first motor engineer. Among his pictures in the book is one of the town's workhouse, now • ASSISTANTS from Stevens Butchers' shop pose with a prize bull out- side the premises in what is now Market Walk, behind ...
... Victorian London after their parents leave to help the sick and wounded in the Crimean War. They end up in foster homes, the workhouse, in the dock and even spend some time working for chimne) sweeps in a series of escapades which evoke the London of Charles ...
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