News

Poor relief from the Guildford Union enabled them to stay in their Albury family home, but when her mother died aged 83, it seemed there was no other option but for Emily, now in her 60s, to enter the ...
The Workhouse Arts Center annual gala is this Saturday, Nov. 18. This black-tie event celebrating 15 years of artistry at the Workhouse will include art activations, dinner, live band, dancing ...
Workhouses, one of the most notorious aspects of Britain's Victorian era, were not absent in Surrey. In 1836, a Board of ...
'My Lady Jane' stars Emily Bader and Edward Bluemel brought the heat in several steamy sex scenes between Jane and Guildford ...
A new exhibition will explore healthcare at a Victorian workhouse in Norfolk.
FOX 2 has learned three people broke into the former Medium Security Institution in St. Louis, more commonly known as The Workhouse, and accidentally locked themselves in a cell.
A new documentary on streaming platform HistoryHit reveals the secrets of the workhouse on Cleveland Street, which was just yards away from the home where Dickens lived as a child.
Archeologists from the Museum of London Architecture (MOLA) have uncovered some surprising finds during digs around St Pancras in north London. Excavations ahead of building Oriel — a new centre ...
Every year the Mayor and Mayoress visited the Workhouse on Christmas Day. It was a tradition for the Mayoress to crown the eldest man and woman in the Workhouse.