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Eastville Workhouse

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In 2012, the site of its burial ground, long-forgotten, was identified as an area of open space known locally as Rosemary Green. Bristol Radical History Group established that more than 3500 inmates of the workhouse had been buried there between 1855 and 1895, before being crudely disinterred when
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the workhouse was demolished. A memorial was erected at the site in November 2015, and a second memorial was erected in 2019 at the location where they had been reburied in unmarked graves in nearby Avonview cemetery.
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workhouse; it was renamed in 1877 when the Union was renamed Barton Regis in order to remove the stigma felt by the citizens of
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The workhouse was built in 1847 to a design by Samuel T. Welch as the Clifton
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All that remains of the Eastville workhouse are the gateposts.
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100 Fishponds Road: life and death in a Victorian workhouse
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A gatepost with the number 100 on it.
Barton Regis
Fishponds
Bristol
Poor Law Union
Clifton
100 Fishponds Road: life and death in a Victorian workhouse
Bristol, UK
Bristol Radical History Group
ISBN
978-1-911522-00-3
OCLC
1082495175
"Grave containing thousands of bodies found at Eastville site"
"The Workhouse in Clifton, Gloucestershire"
"The scandal of the secret mass grave of Bristol's poor, finally marked"
"Eastville Workhouse"
51°28′13″N 2°33′44″W / 51.4702°N 2.5622°W / 51.4702; -2.5622
Categories
Workhouses in England
Buildings and structures in Bristol

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