Whittlesey Workhouse
The workhouse cellar, unearthed during renovation work at Sir Harry Smith school in 2011.
LocationWhittlesey, Cambridgeshire
OS grid referenceTL 27678 97337
Built1875
Demolished1938/39
ArchitectFrederick Peck

Whittlesey Workhouse was a workhouse in the Cambridgeshire town of Whittlesey. Its use as a workhouse ceased in 1930 and it was subsequently demolished.[1]

History

The facility has its origins in a workhouse in Broad Street (formerly Old Tavern Street) built in the early 19th century.[2] This was replaced by a new workhouse built by Frederick Peck on the north side of Eastrea Road in 1875.[2] The new facility had a distinctive tall tower. It became the Whittlesey Poor Law Institution in the 1920s and was closed in the mid 1930s.[2] After the workhouse had been demolished in the late 1930s, Sir Harry Smith Community College was built on the site in the early 1950s.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Millennium Memories of Whittlesey. Whittlesey Society.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Whittlesey". Workhouses. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
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