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Workhouse Tour

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Aged Married Couple's Bedroom

An 1847 revision to the Poor Law Act required Unions, if requested, to provide elderly married couples with their own bedroom. In practice, little (if any) such accommodation was provided — in 1895 only 200 couples in the whole of England and Wales were enjoying this luxury.

From here you can:
Exit to women's staircase
Exit to men's staircase

Aged married couple's bedroom in St Marylebone workhouse c.1900.
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