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Workhouses appeared after the passing of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act and were built to make them as forbidding as possible. Many looked like prisons and this was quite deliberate.
Plan of a workhouse
Illustration of a workhouse
Plan and elevation of Ripon Workhouse (North Yorkshire)
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