48 Wood Street: Workhouse to Hospital 1800s Early records show that the site was used as a barrack ground during the Napoleonic War until 1828. In response to the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834 the Union Workhouse opened in 1837. A fire destroyed most, but not all, of the original workhouse and a new pavilion plan workhouse designed by Frederic Chancellor (an influential local architect who later went on to become Chelmsford’s first Mayor) was built. It was built to house up to 435 paupers and c
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48 Wood Street: Workhouse to Hospital 1800s Early records show that the site was used as a barrack ground during the Napoleonic War until 1828. In response to the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834 the Union Workhouse opened in 1837. A fire destroyed most, but not all, of the original workhouse and a new pavilion plan workhouse designed by Frederic Chancellor (an influential local architect who later went on to become Chelmsford’s first Mayor) was built. It was built to house up to 435 paupers and c
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They were children. Not criminals. Not rebels. Not lazy. Children. In 1834, after the Poor Law Amendment Act was passed in Britain, poverty was treated like a character flaw. If you couldn’t support yourself, you were sent to a workhouse. Families were separated. Food was rationed. Work was grueling. Boys broke stones. Girls untangled rope fibers until their fingers bled. Mothers scrubbed floors for hours. And children as young as 7 lived under strict discipline meant to “correct” them. By the l
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They were children. Not criminals. Not rebels. Not lazy. Children. In 1834, after the Poor Law Amendment Act was passed in Britain, poverty was treated like a character flaw. If you couldn’t support yourself, you were sent to a workhouse. Families were separated. Food was rationed. Work was grueling. Boys broke stones. Girls untangled rope fibers until their fingers bled. Mothers scrubbed floors for hours. And children as young as 7 lived under strict discipline meant to “correct” them. By the l
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