What was the Woolwich Union?

What was the Woolwich Union?

The Woolwich Poor Law Union was founded in 1868 when the Lewisham Poor Law Union (parishes of Charlton, Kidbrooke and Plumstead) and the Greenwich Poor Law Union (parish of Woolwich) were merged. A workhouse was constructed in 1870 on Tewson Road on the south side of Plumstead High Street.

Where was the workhouse in Runcorn?

Under the threat of the union being dissolved, the guardians were eventually persuaded to fall in line and in 1855-7, a union workhouse for 200 inmates was built at the east of the village of Dutton, around four miles to the south-east of Runcorn.

What was the workhouse in Whitechapel called?

The Whitechapel Union is a model workhouse; that is to say, it is the Poor Law incarnate in stone and brick.

Where was the workhouse in Newcastle?

The workhouse buildings were built in the south-east corner of the site at the junction of Westgate Road and Brighton Grove. They included a dining hall, laundry, bakehouse, workshops, school, sick wards, lying-in ward and imbecile’s ward.

Where was the workhouse in Halifax?

As noted earlier, the Halifax Union workhouse was erected in 1839-40 at the north side of Gibbet Street at the west of Halifax.

Where was Stepney workhouse?

The Stepney Union Workhouse, which once housed 800 of the East End’s poorest, has left little trace on St Leonard’s Street in Bromley-by-Bow.

What was Bethnal Green workhouse?

St Matthew Bethnal Green had a workhouse by 1751, in Jorey’s house at the east side of the green. A Local Act in 1763 allowed the parish to raise £2,000 by the sale of annuities to provide a workhouse where children were to be educated, the idle corrected, and the able-bodied given work by master weavers.

Which town is Woolwich?

Woolwich, historic town in the borough of Greenwich, London. It lies on the south bank of the River Thames. Formerly a metropolitan borough of London, it was made part of the enlarged borough of Greenwich in 1965. It serves as the centre of local government for Greenwich.

Who invented workhouses?

Built in 1824, The Workhouse is the best preserved example of the hundreds of workhouses built across the country. The system implemented here was developed by the Reverend John T. Becher and George Nicholls whose ideas shaped the way in which the poor were treated during the 19th century.

Where was the workhouse in Plumstead?

The workhouse was situated at Tewson Road, between Skittles Alley (now Riverdale road) and Cage Lane (now Lakedale Road) at the south side of Plumstead High Street, and was designed by the firm of Church and Rickwood. In 1872, a separate infirmary was erected to the south of the workhouse.

What was the name of the workhouse in Woolwich?

The wards included accommodation for children and maternity patients, and a special sick bay for vagrants from the casual ward at Hull Place at the north of the workhouse. In the 1920s, the workhouse became known as the Woolwich Institution, and the infirmary as the Plumstead and District Hospital.

What was the name of the workhouse in the 1920s?

In the 1920s, the workhouse became known as the Woolwich Institution, and the infirmary as the Plumstead and District Hospital. In 1930, following the formal end of the workhouse system, control of the site passed to the London County Council. It was then renamed Saint Nicholas’ Hospital and, at that time, had 320 beds.

Where can I find the London workhouse admission and discharge records?

Ancestry.com. London, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1764-1930 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: London Workhouse Admission and Discharge Registers held by the London Metropolitan Archives, London, England.