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This pamphlet, entitled Inland Navigation, outlines the contribution of the Trent and Mersey Canal to the relief of the poor in Stoke-...
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This document provides an account of benefit payments in Burslem at the end of January 1813.
In 1811, the town's population had been 8,625.
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This list, compiled by Burslem's Parish Churchwardens, reveals some of the town's unemployment problems in the period around Christmas 1815 and Jan...
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This document provides an account of benefit payments in Burslem at the end of January 1813.
In 1811, the town's population had been 8,625.
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This meeting was held on Tuesday 18 February 1794 to discuss the possibility of building a House of Industry to administer relief to the poor of Bu...
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Family historians may relish this revealing booklet, which reports on the poverty suffered by the residents of Wolstanton, in Newcastle-under-Lyme,...
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In the 1790s, the expense of providing relief to the poor fell upon local parishes in Stoke-on-Trent.
This document outlines a meeting held to d...
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This plan shows some of the doors, windows and fireplaces of Chell workhouse. Workhouses date back to the 17th century and were set up as places th...
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This plan is of the female imbecile ward (so called at the time) built in 1894 at Stoke workhouse on Newcastle Road. Workhouses were originally mea...
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This plan is of Fern Cottage, Trentham parish workhouse. Parish workhouses began in the 17th and 18th centuries as places where the poor worked in ...
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A meeting is to be held at Hanley Market Hall on Wednesday 5 February 1794, at 11am.
A new House of Industry?
Gentlemen in t...
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In 1812, hard times were hitting the Potteries.
War with Napoleon's French Empire had damaged Britain's trade, while bad harvests had caused foo...
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