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Description: | Three acres of land known as Merriott's Purrock was bought in 1792 for £110 and a Workhouse was built at a cost of £4000 the following year - the plaque above the front door reads ' Alton Workhouse Erected 1793 '. It was run by a Board of Guardians and its purpose was to house the poor and destitute. The Guardians also built an Infirmary later in the grounds which became the Alton General Hospital. The site was taken over by the Canadian Army during the Second World War before it all became part of the National Health Service in 1948. It became a residential block for the nurses and housed the hospital kitchens but gradually fell into disuse and was abandoned until bought and renovated into sheltered housing in the mid 1980s and now called Adams House.. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | workhouse building Alton Board of Guardians Canadian Army Poor Law | Temporal: | start=1983-01-01; end=1983-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Margaret Smith | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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