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Oct 7, 2026
How These Children Became Trapped In The Victorian Workhouse
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19:10Felicity KendalGUEST
So where is he?
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19:12speaker_9GUEST
Well, if we go to the minutes of the Board of Guardians.
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19:18Felicity KendalGUEST
Medical officer's report, recommendation, Albert Edward Liddell, aged four, be under the control of the guardians until he attain the age of 18 years.
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19:28speaker_9GUEST
He's taken into the control of the guardians.
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19:31Felicity KendalGUEST
This, this, this is too, this is too much to bear.
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19:35speaker_9GUEST
It's a new practice that has come in.
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19:37speaker_9GUEST
The Board of Guardians is allowed to adopt children that they feel are in danger, children whose parents have died, children whose parents are in prison, or children whose parents are of a low moral standing, and I really think that they would have-
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19:50Felicity KendalGUEST
Yes
Episode 274 – The House at the Edge of Town
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4:24Jonathan WilliamsHOST
First, it grouped thousands of local parishes into larger units called poor law unions, each one covering a market town and the countryside around it.
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4:35Jonathan WilliamsHOST
Second, it put each union in the hands of an elected board of guardians.
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4:40Jonathan WilliamsHOST
Great payers who administered relief and crucially controlled the money.
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4:45Jonathan WilliamsHOST
And third, at the center of each union, it placed a building, the union workhouse.
12 MINS LATER
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17:18Jonathan WilliamsHOST
Interestingly, against the grain of what I just told you about Conarvonshire's reluctance, Buchelli's guardians were unusually keen.
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17:26Jonathan WilliamsHOST
While their neighbors in Banger and Beaumarse and Carnarvon were holding out against building a workhouse for years, Buchelli Board moved quickly.
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17:38Jonathan WilliamsHOST
Within months of forming, they had leave to build a workhouse for 220 inmates, and in December of 1837, they bought a site on the western edge of town, and at Schenglam, for 500 guineas the design chosen by competition came from a local man william thomas of penland street in puzeli and it followed the popular cruciform or square plan with an entrance and administrative block facing the road and wards radiating behind That board of guardians would run the poor law from 1837 until it was finally swept away by the local government reforms of 1929 and 1930.
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18:23Jonathan WilliamsHOST
Now, here's the personal side of this conversation.
Kilydsart County Clare Danny Houlihans Irish Experience Show
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20:03Danny HoulihanHOST
Butter Market every Thursday.
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20:07Danny HoulihanHOST
11 Electoral Divisions Board of Guardians meet every Thursday.
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20:12Danny HoulihanHOST
The Chairman was Sinan Ayers.
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20:15Danny HoulihanHOST
Karo Rae Cranny.
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One-Act Play Collection 016-Various
Sep 27 · 1 Mention
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9:45Jim HedrickVOICE_ACTOR
He possesses the fire of the Gael, the strength of the Norman, the vigor of the Dane, the stolidity of the Saxon.
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9:54ToddVOICE_ACTOR
It was the chairman of the Poor Law Guardians wrote that.
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9:57Jim HedrickVOICE_ACTOR
A magnificent example to old and young.
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10:00ToddVOICE_ACTOR
That was the secretary of the Duet Hurling Club.