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Description: | Elderly couple standing by their cottage photographed by Richard Hine for one of the forty illustrations in his "History of Beaminster"(1914).
Richard Hine was a native of Beaminster and his photographs show that life was still very basic for many people living in the nearby countryside. Rural poverty had already become a problem during the first half of the 19th century. The Beaminster Poor Law Union was established in 1836. Its first decision was to build a workhouse, large enough to accommodate 230 unfortunates from the surrounding villages, at Stoke Water, about a mile out of Beaminster. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | Barnicott & Pearce | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Poverty Cottages Welfare Photography | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Hine, Richard | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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