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Scottish facility to support and provide housing for the needy
The Scottish poorhouse, occasionally referred to as a workhouse, provided accommodation for the destitute and poor in Scotland. The term poorhouse was
Scottish_poorhouse
Public institution providing housing and relief for the poor
Poorhouses were public institutions used from the seventeenth through the mid twentieth centuries to provide relief for people unable to support themselves
Poorhouse
Like most cities and towns across Scotland, Aberdeen and its twin city of Old Aberdeen had poorhouses to complement the provision for the poor and need
Aberdeen_poorhouses
Institution for those unable to support themselves
financially were offered accommodation and employment. In Scotland, they were usually known as poorhouses. The earliest known use of the term workhouse is from
Workhouse
Consensual or punitive unpaid labor
indentured servants Padrone system Penal transportation Redemptioner Scottish poorhouse Slavery United States labor law Unpaid work Walton, Lai. Indentured
Indentured_servitude
Scottish poverty relief laws
workings of the Scottish laws differed greatly to the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 which applied in England and Wales. In 1579, the Scottish Parliament passed
Scottish_poor_laws
Industrial school
website - Glasgow Industrial School for Girls, Maryhill, Lanarkshire, Scotland". Childrenshomes.org.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2017. Daily News, London, on
Glasgow Industrial School for Girls
Glasgow_Industrial_School_for_Girls
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History of poverty in the United Kingdom
History_of_poverty_in_the_United_Kingdom
Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist (1879–1923)
Scottish left-wingers. He was sentenced to five years' penal servitude, but was released after the November armistice. Maclean believed that Scottish
John Maclean (Scottish socialist)
John_Maclean_(Scottish_socialist)
Dictionary of Scottish Architects Prospect 100 best modern Scottish buildings Scottish Vernacular I. Maxwell, A History of Scotland's Masonry Construction
Architecture_of_Scotland
Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland
Parish Council as the Leith Poorhouse. This replaced both South Leith Poorhouse on Great Junction Street and North Leith Poorhouse on North Junction Street
Eastern_General_Hospital
Church in Edinburgh, Scotland
Scotland in 1769 Professor James Robertson (1714–1795) Alexander Hamilton (Scottish physician) FRSE (1739–1802) and his son James Hamilton (Scottish physician)
St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh
St_Cuthbert's_Church,_Edinburgh
Hospital in Scotland
Maryfield Hospital was a hospital in Stobswell, Dundee, Scotland. Originally a poorhouse hospital it became Dundee's second main hospital after Dundee
Maryfield_Hospital
Church of Scotland church in Rotterdam
congregation, and, until 1815, the church supported in Rotterdam, the Scottish Poorhouse, on the Schotsche dijk (now Schiedamsche dijk), for the education
Scots_International_Church
County building in Peebles, Scotland
listed building. The building has its origins in the Peebles Combination Poorhouse which was designed by William Lambie Moffat and completed in 1856. It
County_Buildings,_Peebles
Unincorporated community in Ontario, Canada
County opened the Wellington County House of Industry and Refuge, or Poorhouse as it was called, on Wellington Road 18 between Fergus and Elora. Over
Elora,_Ontario
1970), First Minister of Scotland (since 2014) and Leader of the Scottish National Party John Swinney (born 1964), Scottish National Party (SNP) politician
List_of_Scots
Program of social welfare and poor relief
indoor relief were required to enter an almshouse, orphanage, workhouse or poorhouse. Outdoor relief consisted of hot meals and provision of blankets and things
Outdoor_relief
Cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland
of his hero and inspiration, the poet Robert Fergusson who died in the poorhouse and is buried in Canongate Kirkyard, visible from the southern reaches
Old_Calton_Burial_Ground
Unincorporated community in Ontario, Canada
County opened the Wellington County House of Industry and Refuge, or Poorhouse as it was called, on Wellington Road 18 between Fergus and Elora. Over
Fergus,_Ontario
Inner-city district in Scotland
Springburn (Scottish Gaelic: Allt an Fhuairainn) is an inner-city district in the north of the Scottish city of Glasgow, made up of generally working-class
Springburn
British Radical and Liberal politician and social reformer (1820–1898)
Relief Prohibitory Order Poor Law unions Opposition Book of Murder Scottish poorhouse Changes after 1834 Poor Law Commission Poor Law Board Local Government
James_Stansfeld
throws light on life in Scotland, England and Wales and Europe to this day. Aberdeen poorhouses Aberdeen trades hospitals Scottish Bedesmen Beadsman Beggar's
Hospitals in medieval Scotland
Hospitals_in_medieval_Scotland
Town in Scotland
(/lɪnˈlɪθɡoʊ/ lin-LITH-goh; Scots: Lithgae; Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Iucha) is a town in West Lothian, Scotland. It was historically West Lothian's county
Linlithgow
Scottish architect (1821–1888)
– 10 January 1888) was a Scottish architect in the 19th century, practising across the country and specialising in poorhouses and schools. His main claim
James_Campbell_Walker
Area of Edinburgh, Scotland
Hospital on Crewe Road was opened in 1868 as the Craigleith Hospital and Poorhouse. Craigleith Quarry was active for more than 300 years from 1615 to 1942
Craigleith,_Edinburgh
raising sufficient funds to be able to leave the Cunninghame Combination Poorhouse. Kelly was born in Irvine and never married, living with her widowed mother
Joan_Kelly_(poet)
Human settlement in Scotland
Clashnessie (Scottish Gaelic: Clais an Easaidh) is a small crofting community in the Assynt area of Sutherland on the north-west coast of Scotland. The township
Clashnessie
Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lothian. The hospital was designed by Peddie and Kinnear and opened as the St. Cuthberts and Canongate Poorhouse in
Western_General_Hospital
Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
the form of outdoor relief, poorhouses could be built to aid the sick Parishes should join together to build poorhouses An Inspector of the Poor decided
Poor_Law_(Scotland)_Act_1845
German artist and art theorist (1921–1986)
Saughton Prison, Edinburgh International Festival, Scotland, UK 1981 Beuys creates The Poorhouse Doors, now at Städtische Museum, Mönchengladbach, Edinburgh
Joseph_Beuys
Poorhouse in Glasgow, Scotland
The Town's Hospital was a poorhouse in Glasgow, Scotland, founded in 1731. It occupied a site at the Old Green on Great Clyde Street, at the junction of
Town's_Hospital
Town on the north coast of Scotland
Canisbay, Dunnet, Halkirk, Olrig, Reay and Watten. Many of the poorhouses in Scotland were under used, and by 1924 the building had been unoccupied for
Thurso
British artist (born 1930)
celebrated unofficial performance of The Water Hen at the former Edinburgh poorhouse during the 1972 Edinburgh Festival. Cricot 2 returned to Edinburgh in
Richard_Demarco
Topics referred to by the same term
Pennsylvania, United States Blockley Almshouse, charity hospital and poorhouse, West Philadelphia Blockley Hall, Perelman School of Medicine. Philadelphia
Blockley_(disambiguation)
Hospital in Scotland
Brae, Stonehaven, Scotland. It is a Category B listed building. The hospital had its origins in the Kincardineshire Combination Poorhouse which was design
Woodcot_Hospital
Village in Caithness, Scotland
Halkirk (Scottish Gaelic: Hàcraig) is a village on the River Thurso in Caithness, in the Highland council area of Scotland. From Halkirk the B874 road
Halkirk
Historic building in London, England
by Bridewell Palace, a residence of Henry VIII, which later became a poorhouse and prison. These buildings were destroyed in 1864, making way for De
Unilever_House
Hospital in North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Cleland, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lanarkshire. The facility has its origins in the Omoa Poorhouse, which was designed by Alexander
Cleland_Hospital
American writer (1932–2009)
reactions" to mortality, ranging from terror to attempts at insulation. In The Poorhouse Fair (1959), the elderly John Hook intones, "There is no goodness without
John_Updike
Town in South Ayrshire, Scotland
the Lumsden fresh-air fortnightly homes, and the Maybole combination poorhouse. Maybole is a short distance from the birthplace of Robert Burns, the
Maybole
Hospital in Forfar, Scotland
Arbroath Road in Forfar, Angus, Scotland. It was managed by NHS Tayside. The facility had its origins in the Forfar Poorhouse which was completed in June
Forfar_Infirmary
Area of Scotland, comprising the northern part of Ayrshire
634°N 4.780°W / 55.634; -4.780 Cunninghame (Scottish Gaelic: Coineagan) is a former comital district of Scotland and also the name of a district of the Strathclyde
Cunninghame
Nurse and police officer (1871–1962)
Miller worked as a nurse in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Greenock Poorhouse and Asylum. She carried out investigations for the National Vigilance
Emily_Miller_(police_officer)
German-born American businessman (1763–1848)
libraries to form the New York Public Library. He also left $50,000 for a poorhouse and orphanage in his German hometown of Walldorf. The Astorhaus is now
John_Jacob_Astor
Area of Dundee, Scotland
East Dundee Poorhouse was built on a two-acre (8,000 m2) site in the area. After the inception of the National Health Service, the poorhouse was renamed
Stobswell
Left-wing theatre and music production company
the Scottish touring theatre network for the next 20 years, creating more than 80 shows and giving many thousands of performances across Scotland, the
Wildcat_Stage_Productions
Prison for people unable to repay a debt
restricting imprisonment for most civil debts. At that time growing use of the poorhouse and poor farm were also seen as institutional alternatives for debtors'
Debtors'_prison
Village in Lanarkshire, Scotland
In Owen's time some 2,500 people lived at New Lanark, many from the poorhouses of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Although not the grimmest of mills by far, Owen
New_Lanark
of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist James Hogg. The index is a database of nearly 200,000
List of folk songs by Roud number
List_of_folk_songs_by_Roud_number
Charitable housing
parish-run buildings for the poor and were funded by local taxes. The term poorhouse is sometimes used for institutions housing the poor, but it more commonly
Almshouse
Early local government unit in UK and Ireland
The Poor Law in Scotland was reformed by the Poor Law (Scotland) Act 1845. Poorhouses (as workhouses were generally known in Scotland) were organised
Poor_Law_union
Village in Scotland
Cleland is in the Scottish parliamentary constituency of Motherwell and Wishaw, in the Scottish Parliament Region of Central Scotland. The current Member
Cleland,_North_Lanarkshire
Formal royal residence in the City of London
correction for wayward women, Bridewell later became the first prison/poorhouse to have an appointed doctor. It was built on the banks of the Fleet River
Bridewell_Palace
Irish writer (1930–2020)
Eugene McCabe (7 July 1930 – 27 August 2020) was a Scottish-born Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television screenwriter. John Banville
Eugene_McCabe
Identifying insignia once worn in Great Britain and Ireland
Lordship – the "Physic" garden in Glasgow, Scotland. David Allan Bishop Dunbar's Hospital Aberdeen poorhouses Pilgrim badge Ian Borthwick Cowan, David Edward
Beggar's_badge
Irish theatre, film and television director (1933-2014)
realities of the Great Famine-set and filmed within the scenario of a Famine Poorhouse. Four interlinked personal testimonies. Funded by TG4 and RTÉ. Banff Television
Louis_Lentin
rebuilding of the Old Town; Scottish Women's Suffrage Society holds meetings for first time 1868: Craigleith Hospital and Poorhouse opens, later develops into
Timeline_of_Edinburgh_history
Type of residential care
the poorhouses, leading to not enough space and funding. Due to muckraking in the 1930s, the less-than-favorable living conditions of the poorhouses were
Nursing_home
Hospital in North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lanarkshire. The facility has its origins in the Old Monkland Poorhouse which was designed by Robert
Coathill_Hospital
Capital and largest city in Northern Ireland
building in Belfast, Clifton House (1771–74), the Belfast Charitable Society poorhouse, is on North Queen Street. It is now partly cut off from the city centre
Belfast
Medical arm of the British Army
Portsmouth Scottish Command 1st Scottish General Hospital: Aberdeen High School for Girls 2nd Scottish General Hospital: Craigleith Hospital and Poorhouse 3rd
Royal_Army_Medical_Corps
Former hospital in Glasgow, Scotland
the old hospital. The hospital had its origins in the Govan Combination Poorhouse, which was located in old cavalry barracks on Eglinton Street in 1852
Southern_General_Hospital
Hospital in Kelso, Scotland
Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 7 February 2020. "Kelso Union Poorhouse". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 7 February 2020. "Geriatric Day Hospitals"
Kelso_Hospital
in 1982. Hendrikje Doelen: farm-wife who poisoned several people in a poorhouse from 1845 to 1846, killing three of them; died of natural causes in prison
List of serial killers by country
List_of_serial_killers_by_country
UK social safety net legislation
sections 65-67 outlined several distinctions as to how the act applied in Scotland, the Scilly Isles and Northern Ireland. Pensions in the United Kingdom
National_Assistance_Act_1948
Accused of witchcraft
strangled. Her husband escaped execution and he finished his life in a poorhouse. A marker in the Howff graveyard in Dundee has come to be known as the
Grissel_Jaffray
Dundee (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Dèagh) is the fourth-largest city in Scotland with a population of around 150,000 people. It is situated on the north bank
History_of_Dundee
Scottish footballer and club founder
1856 – 15 July 1917) was a Scottish footballer and one of the founding members of Rangers Football Club. He made five Scottish Cup appearances for the club
William_McBeath
Member of the British royal family (1961–1997)
with a rope made of silk rather than hemp and a guaranteed place in a poorhouse should the need arise. "Harry honours his mother's legacy on the anniversary
Diana,_Princess_of_Wales
French fashion designer (1883–1971)
laundrywoman, in the charity hospital run by the Sisters of Providence (a poorhouse) in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire. She was Jeanne's second child with Albert
Coco_Chanel
Catholic institutions in Ireland
Cavan Orphanage fire Dublin Female Penitentiary Dublin Magdalen Asylum Poorhouse Prostitution in the Republic of Ireland Roman Catholicism in Ireland Stranorlar
Magdalene laundries in Ireland
Magdalene_laundries_in_Ireland
School
vicinity close to where Kyle Academy is now situated. Nearby, the Kyle Union poorhouse in Ayr was built in 1857–1860 on Holmston Road, with the first Governor
Kyle_Academy
Scottish golfer (1836–1904)
in 1905, 1907 and 1912. Park died of pernicious anemia in the Inveresk poorhouse, aged 67. Note: Park played only in the Open Championship. Win Top
Mungo_Park_(golfer)
Capital of West Bengal, India
63–70. ISBN 978-1-85984-121-1. Follath, Erich (30 November 2005). "From poorhouse to powerhouse". Der Spiegel. Hamburg. Archived from the original on 7
Kolkata
Disused railway station in Inverclyde, Scotland
nearest suburb, which was 1.0 mile (1.6 km) away at Gateside. Smithston Poorhouse and Asylum opened in 1879, this was located around 0.7 miles (1.1 km)
Ravenscraig_railway_station
Scottish poet (1822–1897)
interest in botany. In 1853 he abandoned his own business and went to Govan Poorhouse on Eglinton Street as foreman tailor, overseeing the sewing works. He
James_Nicholson_(poet)
1935–1945 fascist political party in Hungary
Bethlen Square, remaining women and children, and residents in the Jewish poorhouse on Alma Road. As order collapsed, Arrow Cross members continued their
Arrow_Cross_Party
Hospital in Scotland
of Aberdeen, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Grampian. The hospital, which was designed by Brown & Watt, opened as the Old Mill Poorhouse and Infirmary
Woodend_Hospital
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List of monastic houses in England
List_of_monastic_houses_in_England
grounds of a farm in which able-bodied residents were required to work. A poorhouse could even be part of the same economic complex as a prison farm and other
History of poverty in the United States
History_of_poverty_in_the_United_States
Suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland
Craiglockhart (/kreɪɡˈlɒkərt/; Scottish Gaelic: Creag Longairt) is a suburb in the south west of Edinburgh, Scotland, lying between Colinton to the south
Craiglockhart
British colonial administrator and namesake of Yale College
St Bartholomew's Hospital, St Thomas' Hospital, various workhouse and poorhouses, and to Connecticut College, later known as Yale. In 1680 Yale married
Elihu_Yale
Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland
officer of health, Edinburgh Town Council in 1870 converted Canongate Poorhouse into a fever hospital known as the First City Fever Hospital. This soon
Edinburgh_City_Hospital
Architect
author associated solely with work in Scotland, mainly working in Lothian, Dumfries & Galloway, and the Scottish Borders. He was born in the town of Auckland
John_Starforth
Human settlement in England
Manchester Road. In the late 18th century, Burnden was the site of the Burnden Poorhouse which was used by many townships of the parishes of Bolton le Moors and
Burnden
8th episode of the 1st season of South Park
when it is suggested some poor people would rather die than go to a poorhouse, Cartman says, "Well then perhaps they should – and decrease the surplus
Starvin'_Marvin
19th-century Nevada pioneer
War, but was ignored. Destitute, she was placed in the Washoe County poorhouse, and became the subject of a protracted legal dispute between the governments
Eilley_Bowers
Street in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
demolition of South Leith Poorhouse. Unusually for the period, that was not the end of Leith's poorhouse: a new poorhouse was built at Seafield in 1923
Great_Junction_Street
Area in the west of London, England
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) and Charles Booth (1840-1916). Fulham had its poorhouses, and attracted several benefactors, including: the Samuel Lewis (financier)
Fulham
Hospital in Dundee, Scotland
closed in 1998. Maryfield Hospital, which had formerly been the East Poorhouse, was closed to patients in stages between 1974 and 1976 as a result of
Ninewells_Hospital
Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland
Marshall Cowan joined the staff of Leith Hospital. In 1908 the South Leith poorhouse moved to Seafield where it later became the Eastern General Hospital.
Leith_Hospital
imprisonment. They also had more people confined to insane asylums and poorhouses than any other group. From the 1860s onwards, Irish Americans were stereotyped
Nativism in United States politics
Nativism_in_United_States_politics
Hospital in Bowmore, Scotland
Bowmore, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Highland. The facility has its origins in the poorhouse for the Islay Combination of parishes. The poorhouse was established
Islay_Hospital
British government and ecclesiastical action to relieve poverty
the able-bodied poor. The sick, elderly and infirm were cared for in poorhouses whereas the able-bodied poor were provided with poor relief in their own
Poor_relief_in_England
Scottish poet
then to domestic labour. She died penniless in Glasgow's Town's Hospital poorhouse at the age of sixty. Born in Greenock into a maritime family, Adam was
Jean_Adam
Scottish anthropologist (1907–1996)
Sutherland, a journeyman plasterer of Glasgow, who died aged 45 at a Glasgow poorhouse. Jessie died in 1897 aged 47 at a Gourock asylum, her occupation given
Robert_Gayre
Laws regarding poverty in England, 16th–19th century
following the Napoleonic Wars, several reformers altered the function of the "poorhouse" into the model for a deterrent workhouse. The first of the deterrent
English_Poor_Laws
History of the evolutionary theory
then being implemented piecemeal in the face of opposition to the new poorhouses. As a Unitarian, Martineau welcomed the radical implications of transmutation
Inception_of_Darwin's_theory
English antiquary
his attention to the condition of poorhouses, and published in that year a pamphlet entitled Thoughts on Poorhouses, particularly that of Salisbury, with
Henry_Wansey
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