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• In the victorian times , workhouses were usually used in the 1652 and 1800's period time.
• Poor, unemployed able-bodied people often live in a workhouse.
• If a poor person did not want to live in a workhouse they will get wipped with a wooden stick or a rope.
• Union workhouses were built in the 1830's because the number of poor people who soared in the 1830's, and new Union workhouse buildings were built, the first one being in Abingdon, Oxford in 1835.
• It was considered shameful to live and work in a workhouse because you will always have goten beats to make them work.
• If they broke the rules they would have goten wipped up all on their body so many times with a rope.
• The people who lived in a workhouse did not want to wear workhouse clothes because they were dirty, old, scruffy .
• It does matter to an orphan to live separatelyaway from their family because they cant spend quality time with their family.
• Poor children(orphans) were not taught to write from 1836 because the owners and adults did not care and they said and thought that it wasn't important.
• If a poor person or as some people say a (pauper) had ringworm their scalp would've been infected.
• A or your scalp is basically your own head.
• I wouldn't want to live in a workhouse because I would not want to get wipped with  a tight rope or get wacked with  a wooden stick.
• On the other hand, I still don't want to live in a workhouse because I don't want to waste my energy on working in a damp,stupid garbage workhouse.
• However, another fact about why i still don't want to live in a workhouse becaus they won't feed me and food,drinks, and won't let me get changed.
• I also won't be healthy.
• Workhouses were common during the Victorian Era of the 1800's,but the firsr record of one dates back to 1652, in Exeter.
• A workhouse was a huge building which was built to accomadate approximately 1000 paupers,who either could not get a job or were not well enough to be able to work.
• Poor,unemployed, ablebodied people were expected to enter a workhouse,to live and to work.
• The alternative was being homeless and living on the streets, begging for food or begging for money, or have the CONSTANT THREAT OF PRISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

A last Resort

      

• The  number rof poor people who soare din the 1830's, and new Union Workhouse buildings were built, the first one being in Abingdoin, Oxfordshire in 1835.
• Entering a workhouse was the last thin gpeople wnted to do, and the prospecrt of doingf so was meant to put off lazy people, who were not attempting to find work.
• If a man felt that there were nothing else for it but to enter a workhouse, his whole family had to go with him.

It was thought to be shameful f this happened because the man could not support his own family.
Organisation of a workhouse

• The men women and children were all housed seperately.
• Children were only allowed toi spend a brief ammount of time with their parents.
• However, most children in a workhouse were orphans.
• Everyone slept in large dormitories.
• A dormitories is a ,large bedroom with many beds.

It was common for girls to sleep four in a bed.

Children in Workhouses: 

• Everyday for three hours children were expected to have lessons of reding;writing;arithmetic and Christion Religion.
• In 1836 it was decided that children were learnt to read not to write, as it was not considered important for poor children to be able to write.
• This meant child abuse
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FOOD;

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 There often had bread, cheese and if they were lucky meat.Twice a weak meat was included. It was comkon to miss a meal if you did dsomething wrong
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What i would like to find out?

If they had laws in the Victorian Era? 

 How were they punished if they tried to escape?

What type of food can they eat?

 

    Fun Facts:

• Teachers were ofeten cruel and strict.
• It qwas against workhouse children to be hit by a teacher.
• But many instances of cruelty were reported.
• Such as children being canned by bird branches.
• Works in a workhouse was meant to be hard and strenuous.
• The jobs that mans do:
• Stone breaking, grinding corn, work in the fields, and chopping wood.
• The jobs that women do:
• Laundry, cleaning, scrubbing Walls and floors.
•     Both men and women had to work doing something called Oakum.
• This was a task were all ropes were unpicked for many hours at a time .
• So that the threads could be mixed with tar on board ships to water proof sailing vessels.
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• By Ahlam Hadaar Marriott Otters Yr 5 :)