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The Prescot Poor Law Union, formed in 1837, was responsible for the administration of poor relief within 21 parishes and townships, including Much and Little Woolton. In 1842 the Prescot Union built a new workhouse on the Warrington Road at Whiston.
Pauline Hurst has been involved in family history for over 17 years - much of that time as Secretary of the St Helens Townships Family History Society - and she is the author of the book A History of Prescot Union Workhouse (2009). Her talk will cover the building of the workhouse, its inmates, Masters and Matrons, child migration and lots more. She will be showing us photographs from the archives, along with digital images of the original architect's drawings. Newspaper reports, eyewitness accounts of conditions in the Workhouse in 1860 and 1888, and extracts from Board of Guardians' meetings, will all be used to give a picture of what life was like for the poor of the Prescot Union (including Gateacre) in Victorian times.
ALL WELCOME - Admission free - Donations invited
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