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Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 3 439 Send Message	Geoff	Report	8 Jan 2005 19:12
	"Enter the Workhouse" Tony Burton investigates life in the feared British institutions.
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 1 527 Send Message	Ramblin Rose	Report	8 Jan 2005 19:23
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 1 527 Send Message	Geoff,thnks for the reminder.Mygrandmother used to ring her hands and say 'We will all end up in the Workhouse@'If we were going through a particularly tough time as a family.I think it was a real fear from her own childhood- No Welfare State then,No 'I know my rights' when you havn't put a penny worth of work into the kitty-Rose
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 6 808 Send Message	Christine2	Report	8 Jan 2005 19:30
	Thanks Geoff. I have just asked hubby to tape it for me. I eventually found my Gt grandmother, Grandmother and her siblings in the workhouse in 1881 and have visited Southwell workhouse which is run by the National Trust. Chrissie