The eery site of a former hospital and workhouse in Gwynedd is the new set ... to carry out site visits to around 50 workhouses in Wales and England as part of a campaign to improve the nursing ...

The old workhouse at Llanfyllin in mid-Wales, built in 1840, is one of the best-preserved in Britain. Writer Trevor Fishlock and programme director Catherine Gorman went there to tell its story ...

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries though, the workhouse became a refuge for the mentally ill, the physically infirm, the elderly, the orphaned and abandoned, as well as the destitute poor.

Last October, the workhouse was named one of the top 10 most endangered buildings in England and Wales by the Victorian Society. Director Ian Dungavell said the society had been concerned about the ...

Originally built as a workhouse, it later became a general ... as blogger Dan Jackson discovered when he visited the abandoned facility over the weekend. "I've always been interested in anything ...

but it was free education." The building, the only one of its kind which is preserved in Wales, was built in the classic workhouse style in the shape of a cross. This meant women, men, boy and ...

The Guardians levied a rate on the union and used the proceeds to support the workhouse. Discipline was strict in the workhouse and the diet was limited. Men were segregated from their wives and ...

The eery site of a former hospital and workhouse in Gwynedd is the new set ... to carry out site visits to around 50 workhouses in Wales and England as part of a campaign to improve the nursing ...