The Village, Alstonefield
The three houses on the right-hand side date were originally one building. Its earliest use is thought to have been as an inn, but it is best known as the old parish workhouse, part of the Ashbourne Union. ...
The Workhouse, Horninglow Street, Burton-on-Trent
The frontage of the Old Union Workhouse on Horninglow Street. Underneath the photograph has been written, "Sold to Messrs Bass & Co June 1891 for £3000".
Trent and Mersey Canal, Stone
A postcard view looking north along the Trent and Mersey Canal at Stone. On the left is Stone Union Workhouse.
Stone parish workhouse was originally built in 1793 for about 60 inmates. After the ...
Trentham parish workhouse
This plan is of Trentham parish workhouse. Parish workhouses began in the 17th and 18th centuries as places where the poor worked in return for food and board. The workhouses were frequently set up in ...
Union Workhouse, Stafford
The Stafford Union Workhouse was built on Marston Road in 1838.
From 1948 the building was used as an old people's home and the Fernleigh Hospital.
It was demolished in 1971.
Union Workhouse, Stafford
The Stafford Union Workhouse was built on Marston Road in 1838.
From 1948 the building was used as an old people's home and the Fernleigh Hospital.
It was demolished in 1971.
Vagrant ward, Stoke workhouse, Newcastle Road, Stoke-on-Trent
This plan is of the vagrant ward at Stoke workhouse which was built in 1842. Homeless people wishing to enter the workhouse had to obtain a ticket from the police station and were then allowed in at six ...
View of the east end of the Garrison Church, Whittington Barracks, nr Lichfield
The North Staffordshire Regiment always sit on the right hand side of the Garrison Church, with the South Staffordshire Regiment on the left, as the two banners that can be seen on the wall indicate. ...