Ripon Workhouse Museum: The family History Adventure

[@sophieharrison9011]

This is where I work! ❤

[@beantravelling]

My daughter did for a short time as well

[@louisemerriman1079]

How lucky . I love history.

[@margielewis6009]

I am learning of my mother's fathers', mother who died in a workhouse, Thank you for sharing.

[@beantravelling]

I'm glad you found it interesting

[@wuverrabbit]

Depending on which one, there are many records of workhouses in the UK on ancestry. Not to sure if they are avilable anywhere else.

[@michaelcoward1902]

i like how the audio goes a bit fuzzy at the vagrants entrance...poor buggers didn't even get good reception.

[@beantravelling]

Ha ha 😄

[@katzablot599]

What an informative video! I have heard of workhouses but never seen one. So interesting. It makes me feel lucky to live in present times.

[@beantravelling]

They were certainly somewhere you avoided.

[@emmaaustin123]

I really loved this video. I never knew such a great and well cared for workhouse museum existed. Now I am saving up to visit! Thank you.

[@beantravelling]

Glad it was helpful! I'm sure you will enjoy it, along with the workhouse museum there is a police museum and a courthouse museum, however the workhouse is by far the best

[@ehowiehowie7850]

Fascinating & shared on fb

[@beantravelling]

Thanks, really appreciated

[@wuverrabbit]

Very fesinating! The only good thing about the workhouse compared to a home for unwed mothers in the rest of the world, was the mother COULD use it to give birth and not have to worry about the horror ship of not knowing and be lied to if a child lived or not. The child was not just taken from the mother and "oh, you had a child? It died." Even if it lived and was instantly adopted out without any word or adoption record. This was a real thing in the western world. I had a 2X G Grandmother whom had a illegitimate child in the Kensington Workhouse. (I looked up the address, as they didn't say the workhouse in 1906. Just the address.) She kept her child and left it in the case of her mother and brother (more than likely as her brother was an adult, and her mother was elderly) and left for Canada in 1907, remarried (unknown if she divorced, but her husband stayed in england. Remarired WITH her married named as a spinster... which confuses me to no extent!) within a few months, and her 2 toddlers came to Canada a week before she remarried. Probably w/ a family friend as they did not come with her brother and his wife. Her daughter herself would have an illegimate child @ 18, but for a home for unwed mothers. She never knew what happened to her son after she gave birth. But he was also never known, she took it to her grave. He was adopted but it was after she was long gone and married. (not is child) This shows the huge difference between the two ideas of places for mothers (usually illegimate child born) to give birth and what happens to the babies.

[@beantravelling]

Interesting, each workhouse had slightly different ways of working. It looks like things worked out for yours

[@robnewman6101]

Wow. Interesting.

[@beantravelling]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@robnewman6101]

Thanks.

[@autumnfall8829]

Very interesting

[@beantravelling]

Thanks for commenting, it is appreciated taking the time to do so

[@robnewman6101]

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Please sir I want some more.

[@beantravelling]

Exactly, certainly those staying for a few nights had that, those staying longer, would get a little more

[@robnewman6101]

Thanks.

[@jacquelinetaylor8683]

Interesting.

[@beantravelling]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@brittlecharm]

All I can think about is the variety of contraptions used to force lefties to write with their right hand.

[@beantravelling]

Definitely a different world to today, but not that long ago

[@suzannehaigh4281]

Totally untrue about workhouses in the 1980's. I would like you to name some in West Yorkshire.

[@beantravelling]

Not all did, but a fair amount became hospitals, It happened with the start of the NHS. Here are a few examples you may know. Leeds workhouses became part of St Jamess and Leeds General Infirmary. Bradford became St Lukes. Others include several in Manchester, Sheffield, York, Goole, Scarborough, Hull, Doncaster, Ilkley, Otley and many more. There were 100's across the UK. It was a cheap way to make hospitals in the start of the NHS. Many were closed as a workhouse one day, and a few days laterwerr being used as hospitals. I personally remember the closure in Goole, and the massive announcement by the government about how they were closing any hospital that had been a workhouse and building new hospitals to replace. Some were new buildings on original sites, others were totally destroyed and new hospitals built in new sites

[@lorio5003]

i always imagined workhouses as much worse. reading victorian literature i created something in my mind like a stable. this actually doesn't look that bad

[@beantravelling]

I think cities like London probably were, but here it was the vagrants that had it worse