Event from: Miscellaneous 2017

Life and death in two Bristol Victorian workhouses

        
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Date: , 2017
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Price: Visitors £3
With: Rosemary L Caldicott, Roger Ball
Series: Miscellaneous 2017
Note: This event was not organised by BRHG.
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Section: Events
Projects: Eastville Workhouse
Subjects: Workhouses & Poverty Laws
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Bedminster Union Workhouse at Flax Bourton, photograph © Peter Higginbotham

Clevedon Civic Society, St Andrew’s Church Centre, Old Church Road, Clevedon, BS21 7UE

Rosemary Caldicott, author of The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire: A Case Study of Bedminster Union Workhouse tells the true story of how in 1850s the local community pulled together to uncover murder in the Flax Bourton workhouse.

Roger Ball, co-author of 100 Fishponds Rd: Life and death in a Victorian workhouse explains how a team of local researchers revealed that more than 4,000 men, women and children, inmates of Eastville Workhouse, were interred in unmarked graves in a burial ground that was forgotten for over a century.

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