July Cottage is a stunning, traditional Cotswold stone cottage, located in the heart of the picture postcard village of Ilmington, in the north.Along with neighbouring village Cropthorne, it shares a primary school and a pre school. The pre school is in Charlton behind the Church in the Old. The Workhouse in Evesham, Worcestershire. In one the money expended on the Poor in 1. This remarkable fact can be accounted for by the voluntary subscription of nearly . The greatest sum paid to any family has been 8s. Price of provisions somewhat higher than at Inkborough. The earnings of a common labourer are on an average 1s. Abbot's Grange, a former summer home of the monks of Pershore Abbey, is said to have once been use as the village's workhouse. Its operation was overseen by an elected Board of Guardians. Guardians if more than one): Worcestershire. Ab Lench, Aldington, Badsey, Bretforton, Broadway (2). Church Honeybourne, Church Lench, Cleeve Prior, Evesham All Saints (2). Evesham St Lawrence (2), Evesham St Peter's, Great and Little Hampton.
Hatch Lench, Sheriff's Lench, Harvington, North and Mid Littleton. Norton and Lenchwick, Offenham, Rous Lench, Sedgeberrow. South Littleton, Wickhamford. Gloucestershire. Ashton Underhill, Aston Somerville, Aston Sub- Edge, Childs Wickham, Cow Honeybourne. Hinton, Pebworth, Saintbury, Weston Sub- Edge, Willersey. The average annual poor- rate expenditure for the period 1. It was based upon a cruciform layout to designs by John Plowman of Oxford. The building, for which the Poor Law Commissioners authorized an expenditure of . Its layout can be seen on the 1. OS map, which also shows some of the later additions to the site. A chapel was also added. In 1. 90. 1, a further infirmary building was added at a cost of . This was subsequently extended in 1. By this time, the workhouse had become officially known as first a Poor Law Institution, and then as a Public Assistance Institution. Older residents of Evesham who have to visit the Hospital still refer to it as the Workhouse or the PLI (Poor Law Institution). Except for the chapel and the infirmary building of 1. The old infirmary building is used by the hospital's catering services. Above the porch is a stone inscribed To the Blessed Memory of S. Ron writes. John Orchard of Cropthorne worked close to the workhouse in Preedies the Tobacconists, and can remember the Saturday morning turnout when the vagrants both male and female were expelled from the Evesham Institute and made their way en masse, probably to the Worcester workhouse. One particular inhabitant of Evesham, known by the name Danny (John does not know Danny's surname and rather thinks that neither did Danny), was very small in stature, but had a very cheerful outlook on life. Danny used to run errands for the elderly inhabitants, fetching their tobacco and snuff. Following John's military call up, he recalls meeting Danny while on leave and about to return via Evesham railway station. Danny was so delighted to see John again that he insisted on escorting him all the way to the station - much to John's embarrassment thinking that Danny might be mistaken for his father or other family member. Perhaps this illustrates the stigma still prevalent at that time towards workhouse inmates. During his military service, John also recalls being treated at the Evesham workhouse when it was in use as an RAF hospital. Seemingly this was a two- storey building, with the cells on the ground floor. These were used when an inmate was drunk or in any other way misbehaved. If his behaviour became too bad the local constabulary were called to take him away. One local legend, first told to me by Mrs Johnson, concerns a vagrant who was working on the construction of a local road bridge. After presumably becoming drunk and disorderly and unable to pay a fine, this person ended up in the work house. Following the standard practice for all such receptions to be given a bath and clean clothes, it was discovered, much to the staff's amusement and probably embarrassment, that the man was in fact a women in disguise! Each home could house 1. The building no longer exists. Evesham cottage homes site, c. Records. Note: many repositories impose a closure period of up to 1. Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, The Hive, Sawmill Walk, The Butts, Worcester, WR1 3. PB. Holdings include: register of births 1. Contents may not be reproduced without permission.
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