Date:1842
Description:This plan is of the school block of Stoke workhouse. The block was constructed in 1842 at the smae time as the hospital. Workhouses began in the 17th and 18th centuries as places where the poor worked in return for food and board but by the 19th century had become grim places where those unable to fully support themselves, like the old, unmarried mothers or those with physical or mental special needs, were sent to live in segregated conditions. Diagrams (by row, left to right): - Front of the building - Section through a wing of the building - Back of the building - Rear view of the left side, showing the covered walkway and passage - Right side of the building - Left side of the building This diagram was created in 1982 during the Stoke-on-Trent Historic Building Survey and is reproduced by kind permission of HMSO.
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