The harsh regime of workhouses is something we associate with Victorian times. But the shocking truth about the buildings is that they continued to house families well into the 20th Century. BBC ...

In Victorian times working class people clung to the structures of their extended families and the local community. This applies to those in rural… Newsletters ...

The National Archives and the National Trust launched a new Web site on Wednesday offering a glimpse into the often cruel life of a workhouse in the Victorian age.

Powys Victorian workhouse to welcome visitors. Published. 14 May 2016. Share. close panel. Share page. Copy link. About sharing. ... made clothes and picked oakham from old rope for ship building.

From workhouse to dream house! Victorian-era site which once housed 250 people and a Gothic chapel before conversion into five-bed family home goes on the market for £3.25million.

At a site that was once a Victorian workhouse in England, more than 4,500 unmarked graves were found. Most of the remains belong to the impoverished citizens of Bristol, who lived in filthy ...

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along ...

More than 4,500 unmarked graves found at Victorian workhouse in UK. ‘Dark chapter’ By Irene Wright. October 22, 2024 11:07 AM.