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People queuing at S. Marylebone workhouse circa 1900. In England, Wales and Ireland (but not in Scotland), [1] "workhouse" has been the more common term.Before the introduction of the Poor Laws, each parish would maintain its own workhouse; often these would be simple farms with the occupants dividing their time between working the farm and being employed on maintaining local roads and other ...
The Peabody Trust was founded after an unprecedented donation in 1862 of £150,000, by the American banker George Peabody for the good of the poor in London. A committee was set up to choose the most appropriate way to spend the money, and it was decided to build a number of block dwellings for the very poorest of the city.
Prince Albert's Model Cottage was the name given to a model dwelling designed in the mid-19th century to offer an improved form of accommodation for poor families in England. It was supported by Prince Albert , husband of Queen Victoria , designed by architect Henry Roberts , and built by the Society for Improving the Conditions of the ...
Victorian Slum House, or Victorian Slum, is a historical reenactment reality television series made by Wall to Wall Media for the BBC in 2016, narrated by Michael Mosley. First broadcast on BBC in the United Kingdom and on PBS in America in May 2017, the narrative centers on families and individuals trying to survive in a recreated slum of the ...
Communal dining area of a Common lodging-house in New York, circa 1910 Children within a Common lodging-house, Christmas 1910. Urban reformer Jacob Riis was not only an advocate for improving the condition of people living in cheap lodging houses; he had lived in them as a young man, an experience he described in his slum memoir How the Other Half Lives (1890).
In Darkest England and the Way Out is an 1890 book written by William Booth in which Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, proposed a number of social reforms to improve the living conditions of the poor in Victorian England. Among other measures, Booth envisioned the creation of "City Colonies", "Farm Colonies" and "Over-Sea Colonies ...
Henry W. Poor House (also known as Poor's Palace and Woodland) 1899: Jacobean: T. Henry Randall: Tuxedo Park: Later owned by Henry Morgan Tilford [58] more images: Hyde Park: 1899: Beaux-Arts: McKim, Mead & White: Hyde Park: Owned and operated by the National Park Service [26] [59] more images: Idle Hour: 1901: English Country: Richard Howland ...
The people living in a rookery were often migrants, immigrants, poor and working-class or criminals. Notable groups of immigrants who inhabited rookeries were Jewish and Irish. The jobs available to rookery occupants were undesirable jobs such as rag-picking, street sweeping, or waste removal. [2]