Sunday, 8 January 2012

A Glimpse of the Workhouse

Here are two diary entries by Alexander Cheetham, master of Spotland Workhouse for January 1837:

we are in want of 10 or 12lb of Black stockingyarn
we have a deal of black stockins
that wants footing and mending


we gave Old Diggle leave to go to Bury to see his friends on Monday morning
he went of he had not been gone long when John Holt mised a good new waistcoat
search was made Imediatley and it could not be found
we sent a man after Diggle and he found it concealed
in his breast we believe he as other things belonging the same man

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