Summary
TODAY, it stands largely forgotten alongside the modern Diana, Princess Of Wales Hospital.
In living memory it was once the Scartho Road Hospital, but the Victorians built this imposing edifice for a very different purpose as the Grimsby Union Workhouse (incorporating Caistor Union Workhouse). It was built to the plans of the late Ernest Farebrother, overseen by local architect Herbert Scaping and completed at a cost of Pounds 37,227 in 1894 to house 250 inmates. The large cemetery opposite had opened in 1889.See the full content of this document
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Tackle Rising Poverty
Everything required for the day-to-day running of the workhouse was on-site. There was a bakery, chapel, infirmary, laundry and a schoolroom with a teacher visiting daily for the young children.
There was strict segregation of the sexes...See the full content of this document
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