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From: "carla barton" <>
Subject: [UK-W&H] Asylums help for Canadian student
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:56:02 -0230


Hi,
I am spending 6 weeks in England studying British Social History and
Architecture. I am looking at asylums in particular (mental health
institutions). For my final paper I need to visit one and examine how it
has changed since the 18th century. I was wondering if anyone has ideas
about a building that I would visit in the London area? Any help will be
appreciated.

thanks,
carla


>From: Eve McLaughlin <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Workhouse in Bletchingley, Surrey
>Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 23:10:42 +0100
>
>In message <>, writes
> >My Grandfather was an inmate at the Clerk's Croft" workhouse in
>Bletchingley,
> >Surrey in 1928. On my mother's birth certificate it states that he was a
> >farm labourer, working at Dukes Farm in Walton-On-The-Hill, Surrey. He
>was 71
> >at
> >this time. Can anyone tell me if a man of that age would still be
>expected
> >to work?
>If he could manage it. Retirement was not a concept in the minds of
>ordianry people. If a man stopped working, he stopped earning, and there
>was no old age pension till 1908, and that was minimal, not really
>enough to live on without some supplement/ If he was ill, or unable to
>care for himself physically, it was the workhouse. There should be
>records held locally by the County Archives. The workhouse infirmary was
>also used on a short term basis as a final care place for poor people
>unable to get a nomination into a regular hospital.
>
>
>--
>Eve McLaughlin
>
>Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
>Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society
>
>
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