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Desperate times: The workhouse

Section of Atcham Poor Law Union Minute book, from 1845
John France's attempted entry into the workhouse in 1845 [Shropshire Archive reference:PL1/2/2/2 ]

Ordered that if John France, a pauper of Wollaston apply for admission to the workhouse, he be sent to break stones on the roads instead of being admitted.

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