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Chorlton Poor Law Union was founded in January 1837 as a consequence of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, also known as the New Poor Law.[1] It was overseen by an elected board of 19 guardians representing the 12 parishes in the area it served: Ardwick, Burnage, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Chorlton with Hardy, Didsbury, Gorton, Hulme, Levenshulme, Mosside, Rusholme, Stretford, and Withington, all in south Manchester, England.[2] It ran Stretford Road Workhouse and later Withington Workhouse. Emmeline Pankhurst was a member of the Board of Guardians.[3]
Background
The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 placed a legal responsibility on parishes to take responsibility for the poor in their areas by organising into poor law unions, each of which was to have at least one workhouse. The Act discouraged the provision of poor relief except through entry into workhouses,[4] and signalled the construction of more than 500 across England and Wales during the next 50 years.[5]
References
Notes
- ^ "Poor Law and Workhouse Records: The Poor Law Unions 1834–1929", Manchester City Council, retrieved 5 November 2011
- ^ "Chorlton, Lancashire", workhouses.org.uk, retrieved 5 November 2011
- ^ Holman, Bob (1996). The Corporate Parent. London: NISM. p. 17. ISBN 1 899942 09 2.
- ^ Fowler (2007), p. 242
- ^ Fraser (2009), pp. 63–64
Bibliography
- Fowler, Simon (2007), Workhouse: The People: The Places: The Life Behind Closed Doors, The National Archives, ISBN 978-1-905615-28-5
- Fraser, Derek (2009), The Evolution of the British Welfare State (4th ed.), Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-230-22466-7
- Simon, Sheena D. (1938), A Century of City Government; Manchester, 1838–1938, G. Allen & Unwin