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East Preston Gilbert Union North View EAST PRESTON GILBERT UNION WORKHOUSE 1791-1869 by R.W Standing 2000 Contents 1 Chronology 2 Sources 2.1 WSRO 2.2 Parliamentary Papers 2.21 PLC Visit 1843 2.22 Inquiry 1844 3 Origins 3.1 Poor Law and Gilbert Act 3.2 Population and Poverty 3.3 Foundation and Motives 3.4 Union Expansion to 1806 4 Architectural History 1806 - 1869 5 The Parishes and Poor Relief 5.1 Union Parishes 5.2 Averages and Poor Relief 1776 - 1836 5.3 Indoor and Outdoor Paupers 5.4 After 1835 6 Workhouse Officer 1792 to 1869 6.1 Governors 1792 - 1869 6.2 Governors Salary 1792 - 1869 6.3 Manufactory 1792 - 1869 6.4 Governors Income and Food Contract 6.5 Other Officers and Salaries 6.6 The School 7 Accounts 7.1 Two Accounts 7.2 House Accounts 7.3 Pauper Accounts 7.31 Agreements 7.32 Deficiencies Average 7.4 The Accounts 1818 - 1837 7.5 Accounts after 1835 7.51 Bonds 7.6 Workhouse Accounts Summarised 7.61 Returns to Magistrates 8 Food and Fuel 1798 - 1852 8.1 Weights and Measures 8.2 Pauper Rate Graphs 8.3 Pauper Ration Tables 8.4 Food and Fuel Accounts 1836 - 1853 8.41 Fuel 8.42 Bread 8.43 Meat and Cheese 8.44 Beer 8.45 The Garden 8.46 Clothing 8.47 Suppliers 9 Class of all Kinds 9.1 1834 Act and PLC 9.2 Classification of Inmates 9.21 The Sick 9.3 Discipline and Recreation 9.31 Trial and Retribution 9.4 Guardians and Visitor 9.41 Dinners 9.42 Annual Dinner - Fines and Treats 9.5 Corn Mill 9.6 Employment 10 The Final Years 11 Census 1801 - 1871 11.1 The 1801 to 1831 Abstracts 11.2 The 1841 Census 11.3 1851 to 1871 12 The Parishes 12.1 In 1844 General 12.2 Broadwater 12.21 Joseph Cave 12.22 Parish Board Meetings 12.3 Angmering 12.31 Gratwicke and the Workhouse Visit 12.4 Leominster 12.5 Goring 12.6 East Preston 12.7 Kingston 12.8 Littlehampton 13 Summary 14 Appendix 14.1 Weights and Measures 14.2 Workhouse Rules 14.3 Furniture Valuations 14.4 Suppliers 15 Subject Index 1 Chronology For those who have not known East Preston above thirty years, the site of the workhouse is easily found. Stand at the front of the public library and look south across The Street, and on the opposite side the present square surrounded by houses is faintly reminiscent of the yard on this same spot, with workhouse buildings each side of it, built in 1792. In 1873 this was replaced by the vastly larger central block of a new workhouse, just beyond where the houses are on the south side, and which remained until its demolition in 1969. In order to satisfy those who merely wish to know the dates of the main events, relating to the Union and its House, the following brief chronology should be sufficient.
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