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| Hmmmm, you might find some interesting relics, but I wouldn't hold out much hope for coin......still I'd join the hunt if I were there.
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Yes I rather think that money was indeed in very short supply here !
It's difficult to think what might be around. I might have a look later today.
Apparently there are cellars that have just been covered up and left. The smallpox issue sounds dire, and I know that quite a few people died in this workhouse. It was known at the time as Poor House lane.
For those that don't know anything about English workhouses , the Dickens novel OLIVER TWIST starts at a workhouse. They were used to frighten people into work, and it worked.
The inmates used to call workhouses a 'spike'.
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