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Ancestry UK

Workhouse Tour

Current location:
Workhouse Hearse

Some workhouses had their own hearse for transporting bodies from the workhouse to a local cemetery for burial. This one, from Londonderry, would have a warning flag placed in its top when it contained dead bodies.

From here you can:
Go to mortuary

Londonderry, 2003 © Peter Higginbotham

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