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Description: | The Markham Hostel was at the bottom of Hipper St, and was purchased by C P Markham and donated to the borough in April 1918 as a 'model lodging-house'. The photographer remembers people in his youth calling it a 'workhouse', and the inmates may well have had to work to earn their place. It was built with the idea of being run on Rowton lodging-house lines (Derbyshire Times, 6/4/1918). Rowton was a philanthropist who founded men's lodging-houses in London, 'a new form of poor man's hotel where lodging, catering, and the advantages of a club should be offered at the lowest price'. (Reginald Lucas 1912) | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | North East Midland Photographic Record | Source: | Picture the Past OAI feed | Creator: | Holland, J | Identifier: | http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/fronten... | Language: | EN-GB | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | Go to resource |
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