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Description: | The Workhouse was laid out as a series of buildings arranged around four main courtyards, and cost £4559 to build. It was planned for 440 people and was designed by Kempthorne in a late classical style. There was also a separate Infirmary for 80 patients added in 1906 and a chapel was added in 1867 at a cost of £515. The money for the chapel was raised by voluntary subscription. Before the chapel was built Divine service had been held on Sundays in a room over the kitchen, but this was found to be unbearably hot.
The Workhouse was one of the first to be built under the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act which grouped parishes into Unions with elected boards of Guardians. A workhouse had previously been in Chalvey.
In 1940 the building was opened as a hospital for emergency medical services and in 1948, after considerable extension and alteration, was opened as the present Upton Hosptal. | 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: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Eton Union Workhouse ; Upton Hospital Hospitals | Temporal: | start=1970-01-01; end=1985-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Reg Harrison | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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