the porridge pot for Ballycastle workhouse - new exhibit at - the photo contains some of the employees who ran the workhouse

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Advanced notice, save the date! An exhibition of metalwork, ceramics and print by Year 11 Nidderdale students @ number 6 studio gallery, The Old Workhouse, Pateley Bridge.

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Instead of doing National Service, conscientious objector, was an orderly for 2yrs at St Luke’s Hospital Originally the 1852 Workhouse Infirmary by Lockwood & Mason it was built when they were working on

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Christmas 1920 at Whitehaven workhouse. This scene is from the nursery. Note the Christmas tree and the ivy hanging off the ceiling in an attempt to make it festive. We are intrigued by the figure in the doorway. Any ideas anyone?

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"Sweet halfling wizard from a children's workhouse who is afraid the rest of the party will kill them if they try to leave"

Nancy is nervous but it's mostly just because of a lot of what-ifs. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Still a few places left for our first afternoon talk in our Spring 2018 series. Come along to hear Megan Dennis will be discussing 'Voices from the Workhouse' from 2.30pm on Wednesday 7th March. Entry is free, book your place by calling 01553 775001

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A classic tale for Charles Dickens’ Birthday.
After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London. Here he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets.
https://t.co/M16rUB4yGf

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This is a great resource for finding out about the workhouse https://t.co/q5QZZeqFWr by Peter Higginbotham

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is on this friday at 6:30 @ the workhouse kitchen! Come workshop some comics and drink beer! https://t.co/ezfrLfnlzz

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Chris spent 30 days in the workhouse

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Hard labour in Clerkenwell prison: oakum picking (unravelling old rope) was also done by workhouse inmates (from archives)

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Original gate to the now derelict Union Workhouse in

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I paint what I do because my family were in the workhouse, ironworks and down the mines. Their lives are in my blood.

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