Image ID: 14538

Old Union Workhouse during demolition

Spital Hill
Retford
England

JS Piercy gives the following description in his History of Retford (1828): 'For a long series of years this parish was without a house of accommodation for the residence of the paupers belonging to it, until they were opportunely relieved by the liberal conduct of the Corporation, who, on the 29th of September, 1817, at a public meeting in the Town Hall, proposed, through the medium of the Town Clerk, to build a Workhouse, upon receiving a rent from the parish equal to

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