Following on from our last article on a great Penny Farthing escape, searching the quarter sessions rolls can come up with ...

The ever-increasing death toll and the need to provide coffins for internments created demands on the finances of the Board ...

Golden Years Theatre Company has announced the cast for the production of the musical “Oliver!” on June 20-29 at Crosby High ...

When he is nine years old a decision is taken by the workhouse boys that Oliver should ask the master for a second bowl of gruel at mealtime…and Oliver finds himself hauled before the workhouse ...

PLANS to commemorate up to 2,000 adults and children buried in former workhouse grounds in Laois have received a green light ...

I'll tell you. Yeah, for a penny. The workhouse is the last place you want to go. They deliberately make it bad. Bad food, bad clothes, bad beds. Any time today. Well, work of course! We start at ...

Originally the Eccleshall Workhouse, the building’s intriguing past as a place of refuge for the poor had largely been forgotten - until now. Thanks to the newly opened Staffordshire History ...