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The hospital was established as the infirmary for the St Pancras Union Workhouse in 1848. [2] [3] The hospital is partly housed in the original 18th century workhouse buildings. [4] After St Pancras North Infirmary opened in Highgate in 1869, the hospital in St Pancras Way became known as the St Pancras South Infirmary. [2]
Robert Blincoe was born around 1792. By 1796 he was an orphan and living in the St. Pancras workhouse in London. His parents are unknown. At the age of six he was sent to work as a chimney boy, an assistant of a chimney sweeper, but his master soon returned him to the workhouse.
Dinnertime at St Pancras Workhouse, London, 1911. In 1836 the Poor Law Commission distributed six diets for workhouse inmates, one of which was to be chosen by each Poor Law Union depending on its local circumstances. [42]
Croft was born at the St Pancras Workhouse in Somers Town, London, and baptised there on 5 June 1861. He was raised in an orphanage after his father, a musician, died in around 1871. He worked as a municipal road sweeper from around 1876, employed by St Pancras vestry and later St Pancras Metropolitan Borough Council until the 1920s.
St Pancras Way in 2008. St Pancras Way is a road in Camden Town, London. It was formerly a toll road named Kings Road, [1] and was the location of the St Pancras Workhouse, which is now the site of St Pancras Hospital. It was renamed to St Pancras Way in 1937. [2] At one point, part of the River Fleet followed the route of St Pancras Way. [3]
This is a list of workhouses in London. [1] In 1776 there were 86 workhouses in the metropolis plus about 12 pauper farms in Hoxton and Mile End [2]. Aldgate workhouse; Bethnal Green workhouse
She was in active correspondence with a range of parties, from Liverpool, Northamptonshire, St Pancras in London and Kingston. She does not confine herself to her own observations but calls upon Elizabeth Fry, Sydney Smith, Thomas Arnold, Bishop Armstrong and others to support her case for greater humanity towards workhouse inmates. She asks ...
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