Victorian Bournemouth (180) observes how Guardians of its Union workhouse reacted to challenges occurring during the 1880s.
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Victorian Bournemouth (154): poor children
Victorian Bournemouth (154) explores the lives of children found in the Christchurch Union Workhouse school at Tuckton in 1881.
Victorian Bournemouth (112): Eastward Ho! (5)
Thrust and parry Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (112) explores further eastward expansion for the resort’s power brokers: the Christchurch Union for poor relief. This organisation supported the area’s poor both at home and in its Workhouse. Its area included Bournemouth. In the late 1870s, the number of Bournemouth people serving on the Union’s management board grew […]
Victorian Bournemouth (111): Eastward Ho! (4)
Confusion and more confusion Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (111) continues the analysis of the resort’s territorial appetite for lands and institutions lying to its east. The vestry elections at Holdenhurst and increasing presence of Bournemouth people on the Christchurch Union’s Board of Guardians provide two examples of this continued process. These advances provoked resentment and reaction. […]