Demolition began Tuesday morning at the former Medium Security Institution, commonly known as the Workhouse. City leaders and groups in support of the demolition, including Close the Workhouse and ...

The Workhouse sat along Freeport Road between O’Hara and Blawnox, and farmland covered more than 1,100 acres where RIDC Park now sits. The lower wall was nearly 10 feet tall and was mostly ...

The workhouse is more than 200 years old and is the best preserved example of its kind Pony hair brushes, lambs' wool dusters and targeted dehumidifiers have been used to get a heritage attraction ...

One of the best preserved and most complete examples of a 19th century workhouse will be opening its historic doors to the public from Wednesday (February 19) following the winter closedown.

The shadow of Birkenhead Workhouse would once have loomed menacingly over the lives of Merseyside's poor and infirm. As work dried up and pennies dwindled, the workhouse was often the last resort ...

Anne and Catherine had worked in the laundry together - back in the days when it was known as Harton Workhouse, decades before. Mrs Robson told the Gazette all about her experience of being on ...

There’s a fair few of these buildings still surviving (obviously for other usage); so, at this merry time of year, let’s have a look at the history of the workhouse — and those Tories who have ...

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 ...

The Hoxne Hoard is one of Britain's unique archaeological finds, not just by its value, but also by how it was found. Various sources note the Hoxne Hoard as the largest hoard of Roman treasure ...

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But 19th century Ripon was also full of hardship - and was home to a workhouse, where Yorkshire’s poorest and most deprived were forced to enter. Now the stories of seven of those people is at ...

Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones is considering building tiny homes for St. Louis’ unhoused population at the former site of the city’s Medium Security Institution, better known as the Workhouse.