These photographs were taken around 1897 at the Crumpsall Workhouse in Manchester, and give a vivid insight into how Victorian Britain dealt with its poor and sick.

In 1997 the former workhouse was bought by the National Trust, which restored it. Staff and volunteers dress up as Victorians and tell visitors of the building's past life. National Trust Images ...

The Victorian-era has long been classified as Glasgow’s ‘Golden Age’ - industry was in full swing on the River Clyde, we were ...

St Edmund's Hospital, in Northampton, was originally constructed in 1836 as part of the Poor Laws that brought workhouses to Britain. It was abandoned in 1998.

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along ...

Chilling pictures have captured the creepy abandoned inside of a mortuary dating back to the Victorian era, where thousands of corpses would have spent their final moments. The abandoned building ...

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along ...

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along ...

Workhouse: the very word conjures up images of Oliver Twist, Mr Bumble and a plate of gruel. But did you know that workhouses were not just a staple of Victorian Britain, but still existed ...

Experts from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) visited the 200-year-old workhouse and were left astonished to uncover "a significant portion of these original buildings".

One shows smiling workhouse boys standing on Steble Fountain, while another shows an art seller on St John's Lane with a group of three men admiring what is on sale. St Georges Hall in 1890 ...

The harsh regime of workhouses is something we associate with Victorian times. But the shocking truth about the buildings is that they continued to house families well into the 20th Century.