Re: Workhouses
All I really know is right until her death my nan had nightmares about her childhood in one, that was enough to make me think they were a terrible thing. She left at 15 they sent her to work in a big house outside Hastings, met my grandad and never went back. But those dreams were terrible.Re: Workhouses
This link seems to give an overall picture, but what really went on inside, I bet we'll never truly know.Re: Workhouses
I do family History and Ive not found any in the Work house ,even when a family lost their parents .Re: Workhouses
My Great Uncle died in the workhouse - although by that time it was more or less changed into a hospital for the poor.Re: Workhouses
I know of several hospitals which began life as workhouses which, I suppose, makes you wonder whether those hospitals would ever have existed if it hadn't been for the pre-existing workhouses.Re: Workhouses
OH's family were in the workhouse.Re: Workhouses
I don't know if any of my family had personal experience of the workhouse, but I do know that the threat of the workhouse cast a long shadow over people of my grandparents' generation. The workhouse was the one thing my grandparents truly feared - even though they had ceased to exist a decade or more before I was born. The memory of those hideous places was still fresh in the memories of those who had heard the stories of what went on in them, or who had experienced it themselves. My grannie worked in a factory well into her 80's and claimed that she carried on working because she didn't want to end up in the workhouse.Re: Workhouses
It was drummed into me by my great aunt who looked after me as a small child that you never borrow money, live beyond your means and be prepared to work hard to avoid the Workhouse which she considered to be a fate worse than death.Thread Tools | |
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