But a “refuge” it was not, and workhouses were overrun with abuse, neglect, poor working conditions, malnutrition and forced child labor, according to Historic UK. A workhouse was the setting ...

Those who died in Dungannon workhouse are buried in a large-scale ... is near Downpatrick and was known as Erenagh. Most of the UK's wild parakeet population can be found in south-east England ...

I'll tell you. Yeah, for a penny. The workhouse is the last place you want to go. They deliberately make it bad. Bad food, bad clothes, bad beds. Any time today. Well, work of course! We start at ...

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The boy was called Oliver Twist. He had no parents and he lived in a place called a workhouse. Only poor people lived in workhouses. It was a hard life. Dickens’ stories tell us what life was ...

Ellesmere community arts group, Fizzgigs, is to recreate stories from the town’s workhouse in an original drama written by two of its members. The production will recount the history of the Poor ...