Inside Birkenhead Workhouse where people lived, worked and died
The Birkenhead Workhouse was “a glaring violation of decency and propriety” where inmates shivered on freezing floors The site of the former Birkenhead Workhouse today(Image: Andrew Teebay) The shadow of Birkenhead Workhouse would once have loomed menacingly over the lives of Merseyside’s poor and infirm. As work dried up and pennies dwindled, the workhouse was … Read more
