Lesson C1: What was it like to be a child in the workhouse?
By Sue Carter and Gail Brown, Redhills Primary
This newspaper article about the St Thomas Union Workhouse is from 1868. Notice how it differs from a modern newspaper. The print is tiny and there are no photographs at all. The remaining four extracts in this section pick out interesting details from this 1868 article.
Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter