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English: Union House - Gressenhall workhouse. A cattle pen and weighing platform > 1309527 - it was originally used at Fakenham market for over 100 years until the early 1970s - can be seen in the foreground.
When poverty increased due to the growth of the population and other economic and social changes in the second half of the 18th century, the scale of the problem encouraged the local authorities to consider new approaches. In 1774 a group of magistrates in the 'hundreds' of Mitford and Launditch proposed that all of the parishes in those districts should combine to build one large 'house of industry' where the helpless could be properly looked after and those capable of work could be profitably employed. In 1776 Chapel Farm - an estate of almost 62 acres in Gressenhall - was purchased. Between 1777 and 1794 the house had an average number of 450 inmates, with a highest total level of 670 in 1801. There were 'cottages' or apartments for married couples in the eastern wing and the sick were being cared for in the building which had been Chapel Farm. 'Women of bad character' were kept apart from the other inmates and had to wear distinctive clothing so as to be easily recognised. Before 1836 the inmates received regular meals, including vegetables and bread made with flour from a windmill erected in 1781 and beer which was brewed on the premises. With the introduction of the 'new poor law', Gressenhall became a union workhouse. Its inmates were divided into separate categories, a process which entailed the separation of husbands and wives, and the married couples' 'cottages' were replaced by dormitories and day rooms. Unmarried mothers were still distinguished by being made to wear a 'jacket' made of the same material as the other workhouse clothes. Discipline was very strict, the inmates' diet after 1836 was meagre and monotonous, and although the daily routine and hours of work were similar to those in the house of industry in the 1700s, the inmates now received no payment for their work, except for a few who were rewarded for particular responsibilities with small gratuities. It was mainly the children who appeared to have benefited from the new system - the workhouse schools at Gressenhall were large and, by the standards of the time, progressive. In 1853, the building which is now Cherry Tree Cottage > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1309548 was erected to provide accommodation for aged married couples - the first relaxation in the policy of segregation of the sexes. And a chapel was erected with funds raised by private subscription and opened on 2nd December 1868. By the turn of the century the initial harshness of the new poor law had softened but the workhouse was still hated and feared by the poor. The workhouse complex included the village row > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1309567 which housed the village shop > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1309572 and the post office > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1309576 with a school room adjoining at one end > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1309579.
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Author | Evelyn Simak |
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