Please note this thread is about the Workhouse located at Dudley Road/Western Road, opened in 1852. It later b4came a hospital.
There was an earlier workhouse located in the centre of Birmingham between Lichfield Street and Steelhouse Lane (around the position of Coleridge Passage) and built c1734. It was operational until the late c1850 when the new workhouse at Dudley Road was built.There's a thread about the first Birmingham Workhouse here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...ingham-workhouse-lichfield-street-1734.57102/
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Has anyone done any research into B,ham workhouses? I have found a family on the 1871 census who are in an (unnamed)
workhouse. They appear to have jobs but must have been in a desperate state to have been in a workhouse.
If anyone has any info on B'ham workhouses I would appreciate hearing about it. Does anyone know how many there would have been in B'ham?
Many thanks
Margaret.
There was an earlier workhouse located in the centre of Birmingham between Lichfield Street and Steelhouse Lane (around the position of Coleridge Passage) and built c1734. It was operational until the late c1850 when the new workhouse at Dudley Road was built.There's a thread about the first Birmingham Workhouse here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...ingham-workhouse-lichfield-street-1734.57102/
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Has anyone done any research into B,ham workhouses? I have found a family on the 1871 census who are in an (unnamed)
workhouse. They appear to have jobs but must have been in a desperate state to have been in a workhouse.
If anyone has any info on B'ham workhouses I would appreciate hearing about it. Does anyone know how many there would have been in B'ham?
Many thanks
Margaret.
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