Particularly notorious was St. Mary’s, an austere, gated structure that was once a military barracks and workhouse. Run by sisters from a French religious order known as Bon Secours, its grim ...

Ellesmere community arts group, Fizzgigs, is to recreate stories from the town’s workhouse in an original drama written by two of its members. The production will recount the history of the Poor ...

ANOKA COUNTY, Minn. — An Anoka County Workhouse employee was charged after being accused of having an ongoing sexual relationship with an inmate. Court documents said 30-year-old Kendra ...

Demolition began Tuesday morning at the former Medium Security Institution, commonly known as the Workhouse. City leaders and groups in support of the demolition, including Close the Workhouse and ...

The Workhouse sat along Freeport Road between O’Hara and Blawnox, and farmland covered more than 1,100 acres where RIDC Park now sits. The lower wall was nearly 10 feet tall and was mostly ...

The workhouse is more than 200 years old and is the best preserved example of its kind Pony hair brushes, lambs' wool dusters and targeted dehumidifiers have been used to get a heritage attraction ...

There’s a fair few of these buildings still surviving (obviously for other usage); so, at this merry time of year, let’s have a look at the history of the workhouse — and those Tories who have ...

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along ...

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But 19th century Ripon was also full of hardship - and was home to a workhouse, where Yorkshire’s poorest and most deprived were forced to enter. Now the stories of seven of those people is at ...

It’s taken him all over the world too and in mid April, he’s back at the Workhouse Arts Center with an international cast in a show titled “Tom Teasley and Friends.” “I grew up playing ...

LORTON, Va. (7News) — Reporter's Notebook: The Workhouse Arts Center in Northern Virginia is among the most unique creative spaces in the DMV having formally been a prison. Now, there’s a form ...