Workhouse

In Britain and Ireland, a workhouse was a total institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment.
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  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment
  • Also known as: “Blue Plaques: The Tipton Workhouse”, “spike”, and “workhouse”
  • Inscription: “Near this spot at the junction of Lower Church Lane and Alexandra Road stood until 1912 THE TIPTON WORKHOUSE where local government in the town originated with the first meeting of the Tipton Local Board of Health.10 September 1855.”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dudley Port railway station and Tipton railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Whatlep, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the Dudley Port and Great Bridge areas of , , . Situated on both the Stour Valley Line and Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford line, the station is operated by West Midlands Railway. is situated 2,700 feet south of Workhouse.

Railway station
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is located in the industrial town of in the borough of , , and was known as Tipton Owen Street until 1968. is situated 3,100 feet west of Workhouse.

Memorial
The was a major ironworks in the area in the county of , now the , . is situated 1,600 feet north of Workhouse.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Great Bridge and Tipton.

Suburb
is a historic village and district of in the in the metropolitan county of the , England. It is situated near the towns of , and .

Town
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
Sandwell is a metropolitan borough that spans a densely populated part of the West Midlands, including Bearwood, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Smethwick, , Tividale, Wednesbury, .

Hamlet
is an area of , in the Metropolitan Borough of in the West Midlands County of England. It is now divided by the Black Country New Road and was the site of the Gas Works.

Workhouse

Latitude
52.5316° or 52° 31′ 54″ north
Longitude
-2.05177° or 2° 3′ 6″ west
Operator
Tipton Civic Society
Open location code
9C4VGWJX+J7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3283976668
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Wiki­data ID
Q628155
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Workhouse” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دار عمل”
  • Azerbaijani: “İş evləri”
  • Catalan: “workhouse”
  • Chinese: “劳动救济所”
  • Chinese: “救济院”
  • Chinese: “救贫院”
  • Chinese: “济贫院”
  • Chinese: “贫民院”
  • Dutch: “werkhuis”
  • Dutch: “Werkhuis”
  • French: “workhouse”
  • French: “Workhouse”
  • French: “workhouses”
  • German: “Arbeitshaus”
  • German: “Arbeitshäuser”
  • German: “Korrektionelle Nachhaft”
  • German: “Korrektionshaft”
  • German: “Nachhaft”
  • Hebrew: “בית עבודה”
  • Hungarian: “dologház”
  • Hungarian: “Dologház”
  • Icelandic: “Vinnuhæli”
  • Igbo: “Ụlọ ọrụ”
  • Indonesian: “Rumah kerja”
  • Italian: “Workhouse”
  • Italian: “workhouses”
  • Japanese: “ワークハウス”
  • Japanese: “救貧院”
  • Korean: “구빈원”
  • Macedonian: “работен дом”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “arbeidshus”
  • Norwegian: “Arbeidshus”
  • Polish: “Workhouse”
  • Portuguese: “workhouse”
  • Portuguese: “Workhouse”
  • Russian: “Дома рабочие”
  • Russian: “Работные дома”
  • Russian: “Работный дом”
  • Russian: “Рабочие дома”
  • Russian: “Рабочий дом”
  • Serbian: “раднички дом”
  • Slovenian: “delavski dom”
  • Spanish: “Work house”
  • Spanish: “Workhouse”
  • Swedish: “Arbetshus”
  • Swedish: “Arbetsinrättning”
  • Telugu: “వర్క్ హౌస్”
  • Thai: “Workhouse”
  • Thai: “Workhouses”
  • Thai: “เคหสงเคราะห์และโรงทำงาน”
  • Thai: “โรงทำงาน”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà tế bần”
  • Vietnamese: “Trại cứu tế”
  • Vietnamese: “Trại tế bần”
  • Welsh: “tloty”
  • Welsh: “Tloty”
  • Welsh: “wyrcws”
  • Western Frisian: “wurkhûs”
  • Western Frisian: “Wurkhûs”

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