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| workhouses, Cumbria | ||||
| county:- | Cumbria | |||
| Pauper Palaces |
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| Workhouses were set up to house the indigent who needed the help of the Poor Law,
the history of which dates back to at least the reign of Elizabeth I, 1601. |
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| In an overhaul of poor relief in 1832-34, resulted in the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834.
By this act parish unions became compulsory and many new workhouses were built. The
union workhouses were to be 'less eligible' that is more miserable, than the accomodation
of the poorest labourer - so as not to encourage people to enter, but to find work
for themselves. |
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| Civic pride gave workhouses an elegant face, and an elegant board room for the governors;
the accommodation for the poor was not elegant. |
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| references:- |
Bartley, George C T: 1876: Handy Book for Guardians of the Poor: Chapman and Hall Baxter, G R Wythen: 1841: Book of the Bastiles: Stephens, John Checkland, S G &Checkland, E O A: 1974: Poor Law Report of 1834: Penguin Books Dickens, Anna: 1976 (December): Architecture and the Workshouse: Architectural Review Digby, Anne: 1978 : Pauper Palaces: Routledge Driver, Felix: 1993: Ppower and Pauperism, the Workhouse System: Cambridge University Press Longmate, Norman: 1974: Workhouse, The: Temple-Smith, Maurice May, Trevor: 1997: Victorian Workshouse: Shire Publications (Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire):: ISBN 0 7478 0355 2 Reid, Andy: 1994: Union Workhouse,T The: Phillimore Rose, Michael: 1971: Englih Poor Law, 1780-1930: David and Charles (Newton Abbot, Devon) Smith, Edward: 1870: Guide to the Construction and Management of Workhouses: Knight and Co Webb, Sidney & Webb, Beattrice: 1963 (reprint) &1927=1929: English Poor Law History: Cass, Frank |
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