What Was Life Really Like In A Victorian Workhouse? - Reddit What would happen is that every time times were hard, the kids would go into the workhouse until the family were doing better again, so they used it cyclically My great great grandmother eventually died of syphillis in a London poorhouse
How bad were workhouses really? : r AskHistorians - Reddit The workhouse was the only place in the parish for the newly-widowed and homeless, for newly-orphaned children, for the insane The big change came with reformers like Jeremy Bentham Bentham's notion of ethics was pretty brutal, and in the Reform of 1834, in the new Union Workhouses, work was required of everyone
How did an English poor house or work house differ from a . . . - Reddit If you have a workhouse with sixty people, half of whom are children or pretty frail, and you're turning out buttons by hand, you simply can't compete with Mr Harris's Domestic Button Mill in Manchester, employing fifty able-bodied workers and using a fleet of new button-making machines I'm not sure how much expense workhouses required
Ive been learning more about The Workhouse Franklin County . . . - Reddit I only did a few days at the workhouse about 19 years ago It sucked But we were able to play cards at that time Like a lot of other people, I had a small mattress that I had to throw on the floor And everything stinks And the food is terrible I did a few other overnighters for disorderly conduct I don't really remember much about those
Secrets scene 9 - which Junes Journey scene is this?? - Reddit Secrets says it's "Workhouse Dorms" which of course isn't a "real" scene name I tried the usual trick of googling "June's Journey [objects from the scene]" and I can't find it It even has a weird item: a "washing dolly" - which I thought would make it easier to find but it hasn't
In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge asks whether “Union workhouses” were . . . That workhouse would have a real work building attached, so that actual work would be done ( often, picking apart old rope to make oakum for caulking) In practice, the workhouses tended to become filled with people who could barely work, anyway- being too elderly or disabled
Advice on what to do with political power early game : r hoi4 - Reddit It depends on the country and how you want to play but generally speaking the silent workhouse is a solid first choice because it’ll increase your pp gain so you can do more of the stuff Other ministers are also good depending on what you need (eg you know you need to build more civs and railways so you get the guy who gives bonuses to that)
Secrets 15: The First Marquess : r JunesJourney - Reddit An animated adventure based on the popular graphic novel series by Luke Pearson The series follows the journey of a fearless blue-haired girl as she travels from her magical home in the wilderness, filled with elves and giants, to the bustling city of Trolberg
A few questions about a clipping involving the workhouse and . . . - Reddit Over time this nurse and whatever resources she was given by the workhouse guardians turned into a medical clinic, and then a facility, and eventually many turned into full blown hospitals So there was a period of time when the only resource people had when they were dying was this clinic, which still came under the auspices of the workhouse
The Workhouse, Cincinnati, Ohio. Designed by architect Samuel . . . A workhouse in the UK at least would mean a place where people that are incredibly poor go to both live and work Like a live-in workplace which feeds you and keeps you alive in return for a lot of labour According to wiki they were called "poorhouses" in America, but the description of it still fits OPs description that it was a sort of prison