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Sentence Examples He has hit on a grand scheme, the purport of which is nothing less than to abolish workhouse casuals utterly. Unemployed millhands and weavers were faced with the choice of the workhouse or starvation, and rioted. Only belatedly was it discovered that a drain in a workhouse near the well had been accidentally ruptured by a pickaxe. The graveyard was used from the beginning, as poor people who went to the workhouse couldn't afford to be buried in the church graveyards. The unfortunate woman stood accused of the murder of the workhouse gravedigger and pleaded her innocence to the last. It was Christmas Day in the workhouse, and the inmates sat down to a meal of roast beef and pork, followed by plum pudding and fruit. The workhouse was built within the current grounds of Daisy Hill in 1841 to provide accommodation for the poorly and sick in the area. After being whipped and branded on the scaffold, he had to stay in a workhouse for 12 years. In 1865 a medical magazine set up a special commission to inquire into London workhouse infirmaries. In particular, the workhouse was a shame that affected anyone tainted with its brush no matter what their birth. Young Oliver Twist is left in the care of a workhouse near London when his mother dies bringing him into the world. This need was satisfied around 1837 when casual wards were provided within each workhouse union. No matter how we felt about the workhouse the inmates who had been there quite awhile, like myself, had learnt not to even mention running away. His thinking inspired the introduction of a new Poor Law in 1834, which tried to make the workhouse their only option. As they climbed the hill to the workhouse, the son paused on a wall to take a breath. Almost unchanged since the 19th century, the Grade II listed building is the least altered workhouse structure in existence today. In that same year a Fever Hospital, Infirmary and Dispensary were incorporated into the workhouse buildings and the Saint John of God nuns began nursing in the hospital. All that, and the MPEV can also fit inside a C-130 Hercules aircraft, the Canadian Forces' workhouse transport plane. Kitchens and washrooms were in an annex behind the main workhouse. In 1964, the time-worker company had to build a construction workhouse in order to live up to the growing demand. Show More Sentences The work required of workhouse inmates, especially the treadmill, was so hard that most apprentices were unable to work for several days upon their return to the plantation. That workhouse skilly was the vilest compound I ever tasted. A virtual tour of the upper floors of the workhouse transports you to another time and place. In January 1866, on a bitterly cold night, a man dressed in ragged clothes begged for a night's lodging in the male casual ward of Lambeth workhouse. There were 400 there, including 46 inmates at the workhouse. As his father was absent and his mother struggled financially, he was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine. Previous to the home, a workhouse occupied the site. Unable to support him, his son decided to take him to the workhouse. Oliver Twist is born in the parish workhouse. There was, clearly, no future for him but beggary and a death in the workhouse. As though in expiation of their sires' wealth, schoolboys often had to live in conditions that would have disgraced a Dickensian workhouse. They haven't made you an inspectress of boarded-out workhouse children, have they? or sent you down to improve the breed of hens? The site only allowed for the building to be one room deep, as a workhouse and a barracks lay immediately behind. Two pubs, a shop and a cottage were demolished to make way for the expansion of the workhouse. Parish burial registers misspelt Hargreaves as Hargraves, but prove that he did not die in the workhouse. The workhouse system evolved in the 17th century, allowing parishes to reduce the cost to ratepayers of providing poor relief. By the 1830s most parishes had at least one workhouse, but many were badly managed. The workhouse is an inconvenient building, with small windows, low rooms and dark staircases. Individual parishes were formed into Poor Law Unions, each of which was to have a union workhouse. Any applicants considered to be in need of immediate assistance could be issued with a note admitting them directly to the workhouse. Show More Sentences Those who were admitted to the workhouse again within one month were required to be detained until the fourth day after their admission. Nevertheless, local people became concerned about the competition to their businesses from cheap workhouse labour. Education was provided for the children, but workhouse teachers were a particular problem. A training college for workhouse teachers was set up at Kneller Hall in Twickenham during the 1840s, but it closed in the following decade. Supporting an apprenticed child was also considerably cheaper than the workhouse or outdoor relief. The supply of labour from workhouse to factory, which remained popular until the 1830s, was sometimes viewed as a form of transportation. The wages amounted to a few pence more than given in Poor Law relief and miners worked to keep out of the workhouse. Thus, the Twistian workhouse is a symptom, not a cause, and Dickens's interest in it is subordinate to a full-scale social critique. There are also plans by developer Richard Grainger for a workhouse in Elswick and details of Newcastle's Ragged Schools. The site was on the north bank of the River Irk, between the workhouse to the north which had opened in 1793 and Walker's Croft Cemetery to the south. Wakefield Union workhouse was built on Park Lodge Lane, Eastmoor in 1853 and Clayton Hospital was built in 1854 after a donation from Alderman Thomas Clayton. It is housed in a former workhouse next to St James's Hospital. The hospital was opened in 1970 replacing the Jubilee Cottage Hospital on Beacon Edge, Fairhill Fever Hospital, and the maternity home at the former workhouse in Castletown. The Local Government Act of 1929 gave local authorities the power to take over workhouse infirmaries as municipal hospitals, although outside London few did so. As well as the overall administration of the workhouse, masters were required to discipline the paupers as necessary and to visit each ward twice daily, at 11 am and 9 pm. In 1836 the Poor Law Commission distributed six diets for workhouse inmates, one of which was to be chosen by each Poor Law Union depending on its local circumstances. In lieu of a workhouse some sparsely populated parishes placed homeless paupers into rented accommodation, and provided others with relief in their own homes. The New Poor Law of 1834 attempted to reverse the economic trend by discouraging the provision of relief to anyone who refused to enter a workhouse. In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment. As early as 1802 and 1819 Factory Acts were passed to regulate the working hours of workhouse children in factories and cotton mills to 12 hours per day. Show More Sentences The building closed as a workhouse in the early 1900s and first became a boarding house, then an inn and later a general store, called County Stores. In 1843 the workhouse in Carmarthen was attacked by the Rebecca Rioters. Under the Poor Law systems of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland a workhouse was a place where people who were unable to support themselves, could go to live and work. As early as 1802 and 1819, Factory Acts were passed to limit the working hours of workhouse children in factories and cotton mills to 12 hours per day. Examples from Classical Literature This building is certified for 180 children, who are received from the workhouse, etc. Father was very angry when he came, and said he'd take it to the workhouse the next morning, and flyted me sadly about it. The workhouse was full and the lodging-houses were full, so we had to sleep out. This stocking was all the luggage I had when I first entered the Leamington workhouse. He has a hand-to-mouth, nomad existence, ending in the inevitable frozen misery of the workhouse. Remember how they raised such a hullabaloo when they were sent to the workhouse? While I was at Stornoway, an old woman had just died in the workhouse considerably over a century old. In recent years, we see the inspectorate urging that even children of tender years ought not to live in the workhouse. I turned to the master of the workhouse, and asked him whether the men had any money? Small intention had Jesse Cliffe to return to their protection or their workhouse! The other went on lecturing her, predicting they would end in the workhouse. For some reason he never went home, and died in the workhouse. In this agreeable frame of mind I entered the workhouse of Liverpool. Visions of a workhouse infirmary for her child had haunted the old woman in the basement breakfast-room of the decayed Belgravian house. Mr. bumble had married Mrs. Corney, and was master of the workhouse. But he was out on the pavement and getting into the workhouse van. Then I shall be able, without a qualm, to send Godfrey to the workhouse. Above the workhouse about six men armed with pitchforks met us. Luke's workhouse, in the neighbourhood, completed the establishment. What is there for me if I chuck it but the workhouse in my old age? Find more words! 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