Hi guys! so todays blog is about where I went yesterday!:)
Yesterday I went to a a place called the Work House in Southwell also known as the Greet House. It was built in 1824. The building remained like this till the late 1990s. The work house was used to provide temporary accommodation for mothers and children and the poor and there were many of these Work houses around the UK.

This is what the building looks like now. Its has had millions of pounds worth of work on it like the roof, walls, path, garden etc. But it is a extremely big place:) Keep reading for more information >>>>

 

And this is what it looked like before! Behind those walls were different sections for The men and women as they had to be separated. They used small sections of gravelled areas to do there daily work out.

This was the room that the wen had stayed in. It was down the cellar and extremely cold as it was all stone! They had no blankets or anything like that just about 30-40 men that would fit in this one section. They would have boxes of vegetables, mainly carrots and they would have to eat what they had got. The lights were made of oil too.

 This used to be a girls room with the mum. There were 5 beds lined up in a row a small kitchen section which you may not see, a table, fire and a dresser! When the boys used to come in the mum had to pull the beds away from the wall because they always used to run across them all, and because there was a private room next door they would complain.

This used to be the hospital. Just beds lined up in a row with a bowl at the end for the sick! It was really cramped. The beds were rock solid and weren't very comfy.

 

And this was the Kitchen! Right over on the Left by the wall, that was where they would have stored the food and it hasn't been replaced since the 1990s. In the middle is the GIANT stove and all the big saucepans and the kitchen used to smell of meat, cabbage and potato's every night. Everyone used to get some food the kids, mums/ women and the dads/men. But at breakfast, lunch and supper they used to get different amounts.

 And this room was the laundry room, where the women used to work and they would do all the washing and drying by hand!

Thankyou guys for reading my blog!:) please comment for anymore details or any more information, or any requests on things to right about that would be great :D