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Trowbridge Union Workhouse
Board day every other Wednesday at 11am at the Poor Law
Institution at Semington.
Chairman of the Board of Guardians, John H. Blake, Beechfield, Melksham.
Clerk to the Guardians and Assessment Committee, Ernest Alfred Newth, 9 Union
Street, Trowbridge.
The Union comprises the following places:
- Hilperton
- Melksham Within
- Melksham Without
- Seend
- Semington
- Staverton
- Trowbridge
The area of the Union is 16,394 acres, rateable value in 1915 was £92,717,
and the population in 1911 was 19,895.
Poor Law Institution, Semington, a building of stone, erected in 1835 to hold
350 inmates.
Rev Alfred William Watt, Chaplain
Claude John Bennett, Medical Officer
Charles Herbert Taylor, Master
Mrs Clara Taylor, Matron.
The Public Soup Kitchen
In Frog Lane, for the gratuitous distribution of soup, was given to
the Town by Mrs Gouldsmith in 1888.
Page updated August 06, 2007
by Rossbret
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Trowbridge