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Title: Work house
Post by: odbsmith on Wednesday 08 May 19 13:45 BST (UK)

Has anyone any experience of 1930 work house records Cambridgeshire. Looking for  1933 to 1936.

Title: Re: Work house
Post by: BumbleB on Wednesday 08 May 19 13:52 BST (UK)

Try Cambridge Records Office

https://calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/CalmView/Overview.aspx

Title: Re: Work house
Post by: odbsmith on Wednesday 08 May 19 14:08 BST (UK)

Thanks BumbleB, i've already looked but I dont know Cambridgeshire, I dont know which work house (if theres more than one) and I working in the dark.

Title: Re: Work house
Post by: BumbleB on Wednesday 08 May 19 14:12 BST (UK)

Have a go at this website as well, to see if there are any clues there.  You haven't indicated a location for your queries, other than Cambridgeshire.

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/addresses/m.shtml

Title: Re: Work house
Post by: odbsmith on Wednesday 08 May 19 14:26 BST (UK)

Thanks I will try.... most info I have points to Cambridge but could incorrect.

Title: Re: Work house
Post by: Bookbox on Wednesday 08 May 19 15:27 BST (UK)

There were no workhouses in the 1930s. They were abolished under the Local Government Act of 1929 and became Public Assistance Institutions, so you will need to use those keywords when searching.

Title: Re: Work house
Post by: carol8353 on Wednesday 08 May 19 15:31 BST (UK)

The workhouse query is linked to this thread,if more info is required.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=812566.msg6730915#msg6730915

Title: Re: Work house
Post by: odbsmith on Wednesday 08 May 19 16:16 BST (UK)

Thank you Bookbox

Title: Re: Work house
Post by: CarolA3 on Wednesday 08 May 19 16:42 BST (UK)

Where I grew up, many people called the local hospital 'the workhouse' which is what it used to be.
 
According to the website BumbleB mentioned, the Cambridge workhouse became the Cambridge Infirmary in 1930 so I can believe that the locals would still think of it as 'the workhouse' for some years after the change.

Carol

Title: Re: Work house
Post by: anneb on Wednesday 08 May 19 20:13 BST (UK)

I can remember my grandfather who died in the 1980s didn't want to go into the Tower hospital in Ely. He still thought of it as the workhouse.

Cambridge workhouse on Mill Road eventually became the maternity hospital-I was born there.

Title: Re: Work house
Post by: chempat on Sunday 12 May 19 22:10 BST (UK)

'There were no workhouses in the 1930s. They were abolished under the Local Government Act of 1929 and became Public Assistance Institutions, so you will need to use those keywords when searching.'

My aunt and uncle ran one from 1930's to 1970's.  After he died around 2010, I visited the town and asked for directions to the infirmary/old people's home/hospital.  'Oh, you mean the workhouse' was the response from a local.