Built in 1824, Southwell Workhouse (Nottinghamshire) inspired many of the deterrent, harsh, and punitive elements of the New Poor Law.

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I subscribe to Channel 4 because I didn’t like the Domino ho hoo adverts

Built in the late-eighteenth century, the Cleveland Street Workhouse was used by the parish of St Paul in Covent Garden #London to house the poor.

Did this workhouse inspire the work of Charles Dickens? He lived on the same road in 1815-16 & 1828-31.
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Make time to enjoy a Captain Tom cocktail this evening. It’s what he would have wanted #newyear

I call the day before Christmas Eve “Christmas Steve”