Workhouse

CLOSE		Workhouse This picture shows a row of cottages on the left of Church Street and the cottages making up "workhouse end" at the far end of them jutting out into the road. The photograph is from a post card probably taken in the 1920's. In 1851 these cottages were on the corner of Chapel Lane, (now North Road). The Wesleyan Chaple can just be made out behind the cottages and workhouse. Workhouse end was not the last refuge of the destitute, but was three cottages owned by the Parish and apparently not assessed for tithes. The 1851 census shows that Richard Barnwell, Clerk of the Parish, lived in one of cottages with his wife and three children. Thomas Bevin, a pauper, lived in another with his wife and son, and Sarah Goode, a widow, lived on her own in another.

Workhouse

This picture shows a row of cottages on the left of Church Street and the cottages making up "workhouse end" at the far end of them jutting out into the road. The photograph is from a post card probably taken in the 1920's. In 1851 these cottages were on the corner of Chapel Lane, (now North Road). The Wesleyan Chaple can just be made out behind the cottages and workhouse.

Workhouse end was not the last refuge of the destitute, but was three cottages owned by the Parish and apparently not assessed for tithes. The 1851 census shows that Richard Barnwell, Clerk of the Parish, lived in one of cottages with his wife and three children. Thomas Bevin, a pauper, lived in another with his wife and son, and Sarah Goode, a widow, lived on her own in another.