Gerard McCarthy, who produced a small exhibition in 2017 in Dublin to mark the 150th anniversary of the famine year 1847, obtained a Kinsale Union Workhouse Register from a two-day period in 1847 ...

Take a look at the condo conversion of a workhouse near where a young Charles Dickens lived. The Strand Union Workhouse, which inspired “Oliver Twist,” was built in the 1770s.Credit ...

It was the poorhouse records of Depwade Union Workhouse in Norfolk, England, however, that led me directly to the ancestral village of the Weatherlow family. Surfing the Internet, I found the ...

In the shadow of the BT Tower, the Cleveland Street Workhouse (also known as the Strand Union Workhouse) is not only one of the earliest surviving workhouses in London, it's also a stone’s throw ...

THE poor law union act was introduced to Ireland in 1838 and each union had its own workhouse, which was built for the relief of the distressed. The Droghe... Monday, 2 June 2025 ...