The Workhouse Arts Center held its fifth annual Ice Cream Social Fundraiser last Saturday, July 13, at the former Lorton Prison.

Brewery plannedBunnyman Brewery To Open at Workhouse Business model hopes to attract customers for art and local brew.

Poverty has always been a complex challenge, but our views on it have evolved dramatically over time. For centuries, poverty was seen as a fact of life, with charity considered a moral duty ...

Mother-of-four Mary Higgs went undercover to expose the awful conditions in the early 1900s.

This is the story of Mary Higgs, who went undercover to expose the awful conditions in workhouses and common lodging houses in the early 1900s.

In 1904, a woman left her terraced house in Oldham, disguised in old clothes and pretending to be destitute. She travelled to a common lodging house and what she found there left her horrified. This ...

A former workhouse in a Northumberland town has been put up for sale. The prominent site on the Corbridge Road in Hexham is being marketed by the Landwood Group, with the asking price standing at ...

Four alleged drug dealers were arrested near Altab Ali Park in a targeted police operation.

In this short film for primary schools Dodger and the gang provide a brief guide to the Victorian workhouse and the common diseases from the time, particularly cholera.