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Whittlesey Workhouse

Whittlesey Workhouse

Historic site in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire


Whittlesey Workhouse was a workhouse in the Cambridgeshire town of Whittlesey. Its use as a workhouse ceased in 1930 and it was subsequently demolished.[1]

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History

The facility has its origins in a workhouse in Broad Street (formerly Old Tavern Street) built in the early 19th century.[2] This was replaced by a new workhouse built by Frederick Peck on the north side of Eastrea Road in 1875.[2] The new facility had a distinctive tall tower. It became the Whittlesey Poor Law Institution in the 1920s and was closed in the mid 1930s.[2] After the workhouse had been demolished in the late 1930s, Sir Harry Smith Community College was built on the site in the early 1950s.[2]


References

  1. Millennium Memories of Whittlesey. Whittlesey Society.
  2. "Whittlesey". Workhouses. Retrieved 28 October 2018.

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