WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Men had to complete jobs, such as breaking stones, working in the fields, grinding corn with heavy mill stones and chopping wood. Women’s tasked included kitchen duties, laundry, spinning, sewing, weaving and scrubbing floors and walls. Did you know? Guardians ran the workhouses and made the rules.

Detailed explanation-2: -Workhouses were large buildings where poor people who had no home or job lived. People would do jobs around the workhouse in order to stay there to have a roof over their heads. As well as the poor orphaned children, the sick, disabled, elderly and unmarried mothers were also usually sent to the workhouses.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most surviving parish poorhouses workhouses are now used as private houses although a few have other purposes. For example the former Widecombe-in-the-Moor poorhouse in Devon is now occupied by a village hall and National Trust shop.

Detailed explanation-4: -Workhouses were where poor people who had no job or home lived. They earned their keep by doing jobs in the workhouse. Also in the workhouses were orphaned (children without parents) and abandoned children, the physically and mentally sick, the disabled, the elderly and unmarried mothers.