Rations were minimal, the food tasteless and of limited variety ... of the brutal conditions and social savagery of the Victorian workhouse, most of which became virtual prisons detaining the ...

Workhouses were set up to give the poor food and accommodation in return for ... The workhouse recreates some of the sights and sounds of a Victorian institution One of the principle issues ...

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 ...

As horrible as that sounds, they might have been doing her a favour, because ending up at a Victorian workhouse was about ... didn’t die from the lack of food, the lack of shelter or the lack ...

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 ...

Tuesday morning, demolition machines went up, as the medium security institution, known as the Workhouse, goes down. The demolition has been going on for more than a month. As parts rest in rubble ...

A less happy tale is that of William Wintersgill, a workhouse inmate who stole the Master’s daughter’s purse and was sent to the House of Correction. His story also features a sensory element ...

A variety of natural fibre brushes are used to remove dust without causing damage Workhouses were set up to give the poor food and accommodation ... and sounds of a Victorian institution One ...