Payroll staff at bankrupt Croydon Council are considering strike action over a proposed cost-cutting restructure, GMB union has said. Union members will be balloted next week over fears the ...

I n 1856, after an outbreak of cholera had decimated his general practice, 36-year-old Joseph Rogers took a job as the medical officer at the Strand Union workhouse on Cleveland Street in Camden ...

During the harsh famine year of 1847, the Drogheda Union Workhouse contained almost 900 poor destitute souls and there countless rules with inmates cleaned and force to wear workhouse dress.

Built in 1836, on land donated by the Marquis of Bute, Luton Union Workhouse provided food, shelter, and medical care for residents of Luton and 14 other surrounding parishes who were not able to ...

An 18th Century workhouse in central London has been listed, saving it from demolition. ... 'Oliver Twist' Strand Union Workhouse gets listing. Published. 14 March 2011. Share. close panel. Share ...

An Irish historian has uncovered workhouse documents dating back to the Irish potato famine in 1847 which brutally highlights the horrors of the Great Hunger. A Kinsale Union Workhouse Register ...

It was the poorhouse records of Depwade Union Workhouse in Norfolk, England, however, that led me directly to the ancestral village of the Weatherlow family. Surfing the Internet, I found the ...

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones announced Wednesday demolition for most of the buildings of the former Medium Security Institution known as the Workhouse, will take place right ...

The 3,649 sq ft home based in Great Snoring was built 200 years ago and once accommodated 250 people as the Walsingham Union workhouse. But from 1930 the remaining 30 inmates were transferred from ...

The GMB Union organised a march against Croydon LBC's proposed plans to increase council tax by 15% on Saturday. Protesters gathered at Croydon University Hospital and marched to Croydon Town Hall ...

Skeletons of over 500 children who died during the Great Hunger were found buried in a mass grave within what was once the Kilkenny Union Workhouse. With over three years of research on their ...

St. Louis police spokesperson Sgt. Charles Wall said officers responded to the Medium Security Institution, colloquially known as the "Workhouse," after the three men called 911 for help.