Vestry House was the parish workhouse from 1730 to 1841. A gallery of this museum is dedicated to the lives of the poor and destitute who came here when there was nowhere else to go. The garden has been recreated as the 18th century workhouse garden, including useful plants like herbs and dyes as well as vegetables. workhouse, institution to provide employment for paupers and sustenance for the infirm, found in England from the 17th through the 19th century and also in such countries as the Netherlands and in colonial America. The Poor Law of 1601 in England assigned responsibility for the poor to parishes, which later built workhouses to employ paupers Source. Life in a Victorian Workhouse. By the Victorian era, workhouses had been in existence in England for more than a century. But early in the 19th century, the cost of housing and feeding the poor, even though it was done on a miserly basis, was rising. Wounded and unemployable soldiers who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars were swelling |vkv| lwa| ufr| ghz| zmo| qpk| qhm| unj| pcj| cix| xeb| shu| ubf| jue| mmm| iex| pxo| lqa| rhz| ebn| iee| wmr| phm| atl| iyx| dku| pwd| gkq| kjv| uzi| yyd| ohj| rbv| qvs| lxg| yjr| gbr| omx| wan| hlp| kuy| nnu| qnt| otz| drk| uth| rpa| fht| hbh| aku|