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22 April.\u00a0 The Workhouse and Poorhouse \u2013 700 years of old and new Poor Laws.\u00a0 Colin Chapman<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Poor Law of 1601 levied a mandatory poor rate on every parish.\u00a0 Those who were too ill, old, destitute, or who were orphaned children were put into a local ‘workhouse’ or ‘poorhouse’.\u00a0 These were tax-supported residential institutions started as a method of providing a less expensive (to the taxpayers) alternative to what we would nowadays call “welfare”.\u00a0 Poor housing conditions included leaking pipes or roofs, inadequate heating and, in due course, dangerous electrical wiring.\u00a0 In November of 1845 the diet of the inmates consisted primarily of bread, meat, potatoes, sweet milk, sour milk, oatmeal and tea.<\/p>\n

At least half of our members live in Over, including our Secretary.\u00a0 The History Society meets at 7.30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of the month in The Carol Shaw Room at Swavesey Village College \u2013 through the main entrance then 20 metres along the corridor to the right.\u00a0 No need to book so you are welcome to just walk in.\u00a0 If you want further information, contact our Secretary, Carolyn on carolyn.redmayne@ntlworld.com or on 01954 230037.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

22 April.\u00a0 The Workhouse and Poorhouse \u2013 700 years of old and new Poor Laws.\u00a0 Colin Chapman.\u00a0 The Poor Law of 1601 levied a mandatory poor rate on every parish.\u00a0 Those who were too ill, old, destitute, or who were orphaned children were put into a local ‘workhouse’ or ‘poorhouse’.\u00a0 These were tax-supported residential institutions started as a method of providing a less expensive (to the taxpayers) alternative to what we would nowadays call “welfare”.\u00a0 Poor housing conditions included leaking pipes or roofs, inadequate heating and, in due course, dangerous electrical wiring.\u00a0 In November of 1845 the diet of the inmates consisted primarily of bread, meat, potatoes, sweet milk, sour milk, oatmeal and tea. At least half of our members live in Over, including our Secretary.\u00a0 The History Society meets at 7.30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of the month in The Carol Shaw Room at Swavesey Village College \u2013 through the main entrance then 20 metres along the corridor to the right.\u00a0 No need to book so you are welcome to just walk in.\u00a0 If you want further information, contact our Secretary, Carolyn on carolyn.redmayne@ntlworld.com or on 01954 230037.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2399,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-4262","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4262\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}