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Bromsgrove Poor Law Union and Workhouse
Bromsgrove Parish
Workhouse commenced in 1723 on the Strand in a house erected 1701. This house
has now been successfully restored and converted for use as offices.
Following the 1834 Poor
Law Amendment Act, Bromsgrove Union was officially declared 15th October
1836.
Bromsgrove Union comprised the Parishes of Alvechurch, Belbroughton, Bentley Pauncefoot, Beoley, Bromsgrove,
North Bromsgrove, Clent, Cofton Hackett, Frankley, Grafton Manor, Hagley, Hunnington,
Pedmore, Redditch, North Redditch, Romsley, Stoke Prior, Tutnall, Webheath
and Wythall
The Workhouse, based on the square plan as published by the Poor Law Commissioners,
was erected from designs by J. Bateman and G. Drury who also designed Leek, Stratford upon
Avon and Birmingham. It was an edifice of red brick, distant three quarters of a mile
north of the Town Hall, and was erected in 1838 at a cost of £7,600 to
accommodate 240 inmates.
Number of
Insane, Idiotic and Imbecile inmates in Bromsgrove Workhouse in 1867.
Male 6; Female 5; Total 11 inmates
Source: 22nd report Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor,
submitted by Alan Longbottom. |
The population in 1911 was 40,082, but by the Birmingham
(Extension) Order 1911, which came into operation April 1st 1912, part of the
Rednall area was added to Cofton Hackett Parish , and Beoley and Wythall were
transferred from Kings Norton Union to Bromsgrove Union and the population
increased to 41,860.
WORKHOUSE
STAFF 1921
Rev A. B. Macfarlane M.A. Finstall Vicarage, Chaplain.
William Herbert Rowlands M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Medical Officer
William Lowthian, Master
Mrs Lowthian, Matron.
Source:
Kelly's Directory 1921
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The term Workhouse was
abolished in 1930, and the buildings became Bromsgrove Public Assistance
Institution. Following the introduction of the National Health Service, the
buildings became Bromsgrove General Hospital.
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ref: 2500334
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to further photographs of Bromsgrove Workhouse
The new Princess of Wales community Hospital was erected on Stourbridge Road
using some of the previous workhouse land. The rest of the land has been
utilised for Housing with the main Workhouse block converted into office
accommodation.
The present Bromsgrove Union Workhouse (now converted to offices -
residential) was built in 1838 in the Birmingham Road to the north of
Bromsgrove. For many years it's address appears in the Bromsgrove cemetery
records as '12A Birmingham Road'. For some reason after the Road was renumber it
kept the suffix 'A' and became '165A Birmingham Road'. In later years it became
the Infirmary.
Source: Written by Colin Wood |
RECORDS
Records are held by Worcester Record Office, County Hall, Spetchley Road,
Worcester. WR5 2NP
http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/records/
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