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Ancestry UK

Workhouse Tour

Current location:
Boys' school room
In early workhouse schools, money for basic supplies such as chalk and slates could be limited. Some Guardians even questioned whether pauper children actually needed to learn to read or write. However, this workhouse classroom from around 1900 probably looks much like any other school of the time.

From here you can:
Exit school room

Hackney workhouse c.1900

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