In Britain and Ireland, a workhouse (Welsh: tloty lit. "poor-house") was an institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered...

The Lambeth Workhouse was a workhouse in Lambeth, London. The original workhouse opened in 1726 in Princes Road (later, Black Prince Road). From 1871 to...

Bethnal Green workhouse Bow workhouse Camberwell workhouse Chelsea workhouse Christchurch workhouse City of London workhouse Clapham workhouse Clerkenwell...

Workhouse infirmaries were established in the nineteenth century in England. They developed from the Workhouse and were run under the Poor law regime....

The workhouse test was a condition of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. It stated that anyone who wanted to get poor relief must enter a workhouse. The...

The Andover workhouse scandal of the mid-1840s exposed serious defects in the administration of the English 'New Poor Law' (the Poor Law Amendment Act)...

The Eastville Workhouse (officially named the Barton Regis workhouse) was a workhouse situated at 100 Fishponds Road, in Bristol, U.K. It was converted...

The Oracle was a workhouse that produced cloth in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. The Oracle shopping centre, which now occupies a small part...

Shadows of the Workhouse is a 2005 book by British author Jennifer Worth (1935-2011). It formed the basis for the second series of the television drama...

United States. The complex began as a prison farm called the Occoquan Workhouse for nonviolent offenders serving short sentences. The District established...

Whittlesey Workhouse was a workhouse in the Cambridgeshire town of Whittlesey. Its use as a workhouse ceased in 1930 and it was subsequently demolished...

The Medium Security Institution, commonly referred to as The Workhouse, was a medium-security penitentiary located in St. Louis, Missouri, and was owned...

The Waterford Union Workhouse was a workhouse built in 1839–41 on a six-acre site to the south of Waterford in Ireland. The Waterford Poor Law Union was...

A poorhouse or workhouse is a government-run (usually by a county or municipality) facility to support and provide housing for the dependent or needy...

hospital started as the Exeter Workhouse, and was also known as the Exeter City Hospital. Since 1667, there had been a workhouse for the poor in Exeter, endowed...

highly centralised system which encouraged the large-scale development of workhouses by poor law unions.[better source needed] The Poor Law system fell into...

City workhouse castle (Vine Street workhouse castle, Brant Castle) is a city historical register site located at 2001 Vine Street in Kansas City, Missouri...

The Workhouse, also known as Greet House, in the town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England, is a museum operated by the National Trust, opened to the...

54.995; -7.306 Derry Workhouse was a workhouse in Derry, Northern Ireland. Located in the Waterside area of the city, the workhouse operated from 1840 to...

Charles Merrick. In 1879, 17-year-old Merrick entered the Leicester Union Workhouse. In 1884, he contacted a showman named Sam Torr and proposed that he might...

West Reading. Battle Hospital began its life in 1867 as a workhouse, the Reading Union Workhouse. Between 1889 and 1892 an infirmary was added with 185 beds...

infirmary for the St Pancras Union Workhouse in 1848. The hospital is partly housed in the original 18th century workhouse buildings. After St Pancras North...

Poor Relief Act 1722 (9 Geo. 1. c. 7), also known as the Workhouse Test Act 1722, Workhouse Test Act 1723 or Knatchbull's Act, was an Act of Parliament...

The Cleveland Street Workhouse is a Georgian property in Cleveland Street, Marylebone, built between 1775 and 1778 for the care of the sick and poor of...

The National Association of Workhouse Masters and Matrons was an organisation for the senior staff of workhouses and workhouse infirmaries established in...

1838. The story follows the titular orphan, who, after being raised in a workhouse, escapes to London, where he meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets led...

Nantwich Workhouse, also known as Nantwich Union Workhouse, Nantwich Union House and Nantwich Institution, is a former workhouse in Nantwich, Cheshire...

Ruthin Union Workhouse was a workhouse on Llanrhydd Street, Ruthin, North Wales. It cost £6,050 at the time and was opened on 4 February 1837. The work...

77°15′17.2″W / 38.698083°N 77.254778°W / 38.698083; -77.254778 The Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, Virginia is a vibrant, 55-acre center for the arts...

accommodate an infirmary for the local workhouse. The hospital opened by Princess Mary of Teck as the Brentford Workhouse Infirmary in October 1896. It became...