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";s:4:"text";s:11325:"Note: many repositories impose a closure period of up to 100 years for records identifying individuals. [Links]. For permission to reproduce them please contact refandinfo@bristol.gov.uk. Before travelling a long distance, always check that the records you want to consult will be available. The two pavilions were connected to each other at one end by a passage, which also connected to the infirmary's own kitchen. A few years ago a factory for spinning wool was set up, but after 3 years £600 was lost, and it was discontinued. © Peter Higginbotham. All rights reserved. Downend Cottage Homes from the west, c.1905. They are well clad, decent in appearance and respectful. The master says that the house was not built with a view to its present use. Most workhouses provided accommodation specifically for the mentally ill, particularly less severe cases for whom workhouse accommodation was much cheaper than the costing of using a county asylum. Each pavilion contained thirty-two beds, each with 1800 cubic feet of space. All rights reserved. Bristol Stapleton workhouse, 2000. Dinner—Sunday, soup made of bullocks' head; Monday, Friday, pease soup; Tuesday, Thursday, meat and potatoes; Wednesday, Saturday, bread and cheese. The AncestryInstitution websitegives access to: 1. index to civil registrations of birth, marriage and death 2. the census returns for England and Wales 1841 to 1911 3. an increasing number of family history datasets from all over the world You can use Ancestry on any library computer and in the Bristol Archives searchroom. The building had recently been occupied by the Treasury as a mint and so it became known as the Mint Workhouse and was used to house the elderly, boys, and young children. As well as the other web pages in this section (see the 'Records & Resources' section of the menu-bar at the left), a nunber of books give good coverage of records relating to the poor, including: A large number of books relating to the history of specific unions and workhouses are listed on the separate Booklist web page. There was a major redevelopment of the main building in about 1890, together with the erection of a low single-storey entrance block along Manor Road, and a chapel. They were clothed and given "such Employments as were fit for their Ages and Strengths. An old man was appointed as door-keeper and general porter. © Peter Higginbotham. Channon's Hill Homes - children's house, 2011. The scheme, designed by Messrs. La Trobe and Weston of Bristol, included seven semi-detached pairs of homes arranged along one side of a gently curving crescent. Charles Booth was a social reformer who mapped out areas of London. © Peter Higginbotham. Contents may not be reproduced without permission. of cheese are allowed for the two meals, and on other days 3oz. The boys were also taught to read and (unlike the girls) to write. After various delays, in 1698 a building was rented for use as a workhouse. It also took over the Barton Regis workhouse at 100 Fishponds Road in Eastville, with the much reduced Barton Regis Union building a new workhouse at Southmead. The workhouse was a major element of Britain's poor relief system which, from the end of the sixteenth century, provided publicly funded and administered assistance for local residents who could not support themselves. Servants were initially employed in the kitchen to perform cooking and washing but these were soon dispensed with and the work done by the older girls. 5d) for the benefit of 170 inmates. The enlarged Bristol Board of Guardians continued to hold their meetings at the St Peter's Hospital site. (Comparable changes took place in Ireland in 1838, and in Scotland in 1845.) Bristol Stapleton Workhouse from the south, c.1915. Channon's Hill Homes - administrative building, 2011. As a result of such incidents, there was an increasing move towards the setting up of publicly-administered county lunatic asylums which could provide more specialized care for the mentally ill. Bristol St Peter's Hospital, board-room. In good weather the girls were allowed to walk on the hills with their Tutresses. Eastville from the air in 1967. Third row — 3: David Jenkins; 4: Gildbert Adams; 9: David Lewtas. St George's later ha… The children are taught to read, to knit, and to sew and when of sufficient age are sent to service. The Corporation was managed by a Board of Guardians — four from each of the city's twelve "wards" — plus the Mayor and Aldermen, making a total of sixty. [Up to 1834] © Peter Higginbotham. All the buildings were demolished in 1983 and modern housing now occupies the site. Unless otherwise indicated, content is copyright Peter Higginbotham and may not be re-published without permission. The copyright of material on this website is retained by the originators of the material. In 1832, when a major cholera outbreak was causing severe problems at St Peter's, the Corporation began renting, and subsequently purchased, the old prison on Manor Road, Stapleton. On Sundays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, 6oz. [Unions List] © 2020 Peter Higginbotham. © Peter Higginbotham. In England and Wales, a major reform in the administration of poor relief took place in 1834. Stapleton had a workhouse by 1777, when it could house 100 inmates. Family historians who are new to the subject may find it helpful to consult one of the various general online introductory guides listed below: For a selection of books providing introductions to family history, see my Online Bookstore. Bristol Stapleton Workhouse from the south, c.1905. Prostitutes wear a yellow dress and single pregnant women wear a red dress; they are kept separate from the rest and not allowed to associate with the children. © Peter Higginbotham. The only work at present is picking oakum by which very little is earned. Downend Cottage Homes convalescent home, 1904. The most interesting building... is that of the Old French Prison, so called from its having, been built and used during the war with France. The building and survived until 1940 when it was destroyed by wartime bombing. This website uses cookies for comments, shopping and to gather stats for our geeky pleasure. There was, however, increasing concern around this time about the care of "pauper lunatics" in workhouses. © Peter Higginbotham. During the First World War, the asylum became Fishponds Military Hospital. The great increase in population which has taken place on the last hundred years has been chiefly confined to the out-parishes. For further information on more specific aspects of workhouse records, use the options in 'Records & Resources' menu section at the left of the screen. In 1962, the site became The Crescent Approved School for Girls. Some of the old people in the neighbourhood were lately in possession of curious articles, beautifully worked in bone, purchased in the market. 4d. London Poor Law and Board of Guardian Records, Free UK Genealogy (Census/BMD/Parish records), Central records repositories, e.g. Tags: Eastville Workhouse from the air in 1967. Subjects: The feared address: 100 Fishponds Road. If you are interested in researching the history of a particular workhouse, or in tracing records for a person who may have been in a workhouse, a wide variety of records and other material may be of interest to you. Because of this, you may often see references to 'Pre-1834' and 'Post-1834' records. Downend Cottage Homes cottage layout, 1904. The Bristol Asylum was an impressive building and was the subject of a feature in the architectural journal Building News in April, 1891. Your email address will not be published. Bristol workhouse north-west block from the south-east, 2000. In 1861, the Bristol Lunatic Asylum was opened on a site immediately to the north-west of the workhouse as shown on the 1901 map below. A Comprehensive History of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham Tweet Follow … After that date, poor relief administration was through groupings of parishes known as Poor Law Unions, each of which had its own large workhouse. The material below is taken from the web page . Staff were appointed including a Master "To receive in Work, and deliver it out again, and to keep Accounts of the House &c.", a Mistress "to look after the Kitchin and Lodgings, to provide their Meals at set Times", four Tutresses "to teach them to Spin, under each of which we designed to put Five and twenty girls", and a School-Mistress "to teach them to read". © Peter Higginbotham. In 1897, following the extension of its boundaries to cover the whole of urban Bristol, the Corporation was reconstituted as a single Poor Law Parish. There were also a Headquarters and Receiving Homes at Channon's Hill (i.e. They were occupied in "spinning Cotten Wool, and weaving Fustians" for which they were able to generate the creditable income of £6 per week. Galleries BMJ Report on Bristol Workhouse and Infirmary, 1867. [Staff] © Peter Higginbotham. The resulting data may then be accessible online or via a data CD, although a charge for access is made in many cases. This arrangement lasted only to 1904, when the Barton Regis Union was wound up and its parishes dispersed between a further enlarged Bristol City and the Chipping Sodbury Union. Unless otherwise indicated, this page () is copyright Peter Higginbotham. The New Workhouse, as it became known, was to house a hundred pauper girls. Each home accommodated up to 12 children looked after by a house-mother. There are 12 or 15 beds, principally of flocks, in each apartment, for which reason probably, and on account of the number of old and diseased persons in it, the house is infested with vermin, particularly bugs. © Peter Higginbotham. © Peter Higginbotham. To a visitor there appears on the whole to be a want of cleanliness. Second row — 2: Mrs Hennessey; 6: Mrs Hampton;. These changes, together with the long-standing existence of Bristol Incorporation (whose status exempted it from the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act), caused some complications in the setting-up of poor-law unions in and around Bristol. of meat and the same quantity of bread are allowed to each person on meat days. Each index entry gives the person's name, the registration district, and the three-month quarter in which the event took place. Illness amongst the inmates was common with around twenty ill at any one time, suffering from measles, smallpox and "other distempers". Bristol St Peter's Hospital. The number of inmates is 350, of whom 63 are in a pest house belonging to the Workhouse. In August of that year, a hundred boys were moved in. In 1835, Bristol's new city council extended the city's boundaries to encompass the parishes of St Philip and Jacob Without and Clifton, the united district of St James and St Paul, and parts of the parishes of Bedminster and Westbury-on-Trym. In 1794 the total was 390. The Bristol Incorporation then comprised the city parishes of All Saints, Castle Precincts, Christ Church, St Augustine the less, St Ewin, St James, St John, St Leonard, St Mary-le-Port, St Mary Redcliffe, St Michael, St Nicholas, St Paul, St Peter, St Philip & St Jacob, St Stephen, St Thomas, St Werburg, and Temple. Despite Cary's rosy picture of the workhouse scheme, it was not without its critics. 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