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Sourcing historic building images

29/5/2020

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This week, Wednesday has been looking through the Gressenhall's MODES database, to find historic images of the workhouse and the inmates living there.
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I have been looking through some beautiful historic photographs of Gressenhall, and thought I would share some of my favourites!
The beautiful image below shows the outside of the building, taken when the workhouse had been repurposed as a care home. There are hundreds of pictures of the residents dancing, celebrating and going about their lives.
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The next image shows workhouse children outside the school, pre-1912. It’s incredible to think that they grew up in the building over a hundred year ago!
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​Finally, one of my very favourites is this photograph from 1926, showing the effort that went into decorating for Christmas. This image was taken in the dining hall by WJG Powley, a photographer from Beetley village. 
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John Hainsworth
29/5/2020 04:03:08 pm

Lovely photographs. I wish we had more at Llanfyllin! Only two or three of people before the 1950s.

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