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Workhouse Tour

Current location:
Women's day-room
Each sex had its own day-room used by the old and infirm, and by the able-bodied during "leisure" time. Although entertainment was limited, by the end of the 1920s a day-room might have a wireless for the inmates to listen to.

From here you can:
Go out to women's staircase

Wellingborough early 1900s. © Peter Higginbotham.

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