The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along the ...

This imposing building was being used as a storage facility by the local council when this photo was taken in 1967 but it had played an important role in the history of Darwen. Darwen workhouse, 1967 ...

In 1904, a woman left her terraced house in Oldham, disguised in old clothes and pretending to be destitute. She travelled to a common lodging house and what she found there left her horrified. This ...