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Limavady Workhouse Workhouse are available The Blind FiddlerThe Pauper146s GraveyardNewtownlimavady Workhouse opened on 15th March 1842 and admitted its rst inmate on the same dayWorkhouses wer. Charity . and the . Care . of the . Poor. Lecture 4. Medicine, Disease and Society in Britain, 1750 - 1950. Lecture Themes. Links between sickness and poverty. Access to medical care for the poor. Increasing population, urbanisation and industrialisation. 6-1 CHAPTER1.POLICE AND ARREST.2.WORKHOUSE.POLICE AND ARREST SECTION6-101.Policemen subject to chief's orders.6-102.Policemen to preserve law and order, etc.6-103.Policemen to wear uniforms and be arm WORKHOUSE RECORDS What are poor law records? The Poor Law system was set up to provide relief to the destitute poor. The records are the archives of the Boards of Guardians (PRONI ref BG/), who were Workhouse & Poor Law records Clerkenwell Workhouse was established in 1727 for the parishes of St James and St John and stood on the west side of Farringdon Road (formerly known as Coppice Row) . The Industrial Revolution, which began in England, was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when the life of ordinary people was changed dramatically forever. It was a time of numerous inventions, so industry developed so fast that society could barely keep up.. By . Jack. Queen Victoria . Who was . Q. ueen Victoria . Queen Victoria was the longest reining monarch since the 9. th of. September when Queen Elisabeth the 2. nd. took over the rein. She was born on the 24. The old poor law . In the industrial revolution the poor in England, were looked after by a system set up in the 16. th. century. Every parish (town) was to set up their own workhouses where the poor could live and work for very little or no pay. . Workhouses. Workhouses first began when a law was passed in 1838 that stated workhouses were to be built to help the . poor. People worked in the workhouses in exchange for shelter and food. . By August 1846, there were about 128 workhouses around the country.. http://www.workhouses.org.uk Click on: Workhouse Life (on the left)Click on each of the topics: Entering & Leaving Uniform Classification Inside a workhouse Daily routine Rules & punishment Workhouse The Victorian times mean Victoria rules. The time when Queen Victoria [ was on the throne. She ruled for 64 years. She was the longest reigning monic until Wednesday 9 September 2015. Who were the Victorians?. © . Romola. . Davenport (University of Cambridge). Jeremy . Boulton (University of Newcastle). LPSS ‘Death and Disease in the Community, 1400-2010’. Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester. This does not “count” towards your final GCSE grade but appears on your certificate as a separate assessment which will be graded “pass”, “merit” or “distinction”. You will prepare a 5 minute talk on changing attitudes towards a set topic between Victorian times and today. Selected Extracts. I made bold to ring at the workhouse gate, where I was wholly unexpected and quite unknown. A very bright and nimble matron, with a bunch of keys in her hand, responded to my request to se the House... The Traveller (the matron intimated) should see the worst first. He was welcome to see everything. Such as it was, there it all was. This was the only preparation for our entering ‘the Foul Wards’. They were in an old building squeezed away in a corner of a paved yard, quite detached from the more modern and spacious main body of the workhouse... A-bed in these miserable rooms, here on bedsteads, there (for a change as I understood it) on the floor, were women in every stage of distress and disease... . Challenge. Dickens made the price of ‘A Christmas Carol’ high for a transient amount of time so that it would be only affordable for the rich.. Why would he do this? . What did he want to achieve?.