Book description
This book tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the
words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, either
as inmates or through some other connectin with the institution. Using
a wide variety of sources - letters, poems, graffiti, autobiography,
official reports, testimony at official inquiries, and oral history,
Peter Higginbotham creates a vivid portrait of what really went on
behind the doors of the workhouse - all the sights, sounds and smells
of the place, and the effect it had on those whose lives it touched.
