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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2016 9:38:44 GMT -5
excellent documentary and should make us all thankful we live in this time of compassion for poor people:
p.s. not targeting the English people but I'm finding better documentation on their workhouses than American.
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Post by mouse on Oct 12, 2016 10:51:33 GMT -5
its history cheffy..so no worries...and it wouldn't matter or alter history in any way even if you were targeting the English....
the big problem for some people is they cannot take an unemotional look at history..or put incidences into perspective ..so often judging the past by todays norms ..all ways a rather silly and futile thing to do and gets every thing out of context
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the workhouses were notorious places..and made deliberately so to stop people being relient upon charity..Oliver Twist was spot on the mark..although the workhouses held all ages of males..separated from the femals
in our local town..there are still shackles on the walls in the oldest part of what used to be the workhouse complex..it comprises two buildings in its own grounds with a gate house
the larger of the two buildings was turned into a physco geriatric unit and is now updated and used as a repite and after operation unit..which has its own physio attached....the smaller unit was turned into rooms and flats nurses in the area could rent
a cottage hospital was built about a mile or so away..it was built by a local family [who did very well out of the mills in the area]this cottage hospital was closed some time ago and is is now a hospice run on public donation
although when my children were young it was the place to go for anything which did not require any thing too serious and still had wards for patients..in fact my Mother actually died in that cottage hospital..the hospital its self was situated in a beautiful park donated by the same family...[who also built the town hall and the local magistrates court was also held there
the same family also provided the local maternity hospital now also closed
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2016 17:13:34 GMT -5
I remember as a child a building that was referred to as the "poor house".
I remember when we would frustrate mom with our childish wants that she would just throw her hands up and tell us "we were driving the family to the poorhouse" lol
At that time we were poor but didn't know it as everyone else was in the same boat...
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Post by mouse on Oct 13, 2016 2:46:08 GMT -5
people still talked about the workhouse when I was younger..it was an absolute dread then in 1948 the NHS was created...and gradually the spectre of the workhouse died away in history the poor house..alms houses and workhouses played a big part as places for the destitute originally the poor where a charge on the Parish they lived in...some parishes be better to be destitute in than others originalhospitals alms houses and workhouses can still be found up and down the country situations like ""Downton"" it was the job of the lord to house and feed the destitute on his lands www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?TNF2254-Norfolk-Workhouses-Almshouses-and-Parish-Almshouses-(Article) |
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