* The workhouse in Lutterworth, Leicestershire ( 1839 – 40 )

Worcestershire and after 1837 head of the Evesham Poor Law Union which took responsibility for the administration and funding of the Poor Law, and built a workhouse for that area.

He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, ordained in the Church of England in 1837, and became chaplain to a central London workhouse.

The Manchester workhouse was built after the formation of the Poor Law Unions in 1837.

Many workers lost their jobs during the major economic depression of 1837, and there was a strong feeling that what the unemployed needed was not the workhouse but short-term relief to tide them over.

In 1837 Horwich joined with other townships and civil parishes to form the Bolton Poor Law Union and took joint responsibility for the administration and funding of the Poor Law in that area and built a workhouse in Farnworth.

It was part of the Bury Poor Law Union, which was formed in February 1837, overseen by a Board of 25 Guardians including three from Tottington Lower End using the old workhouses at Bury, Radcliffe, Pilkington and Heywood until a new workhouse at Jericho opened in 1857.

In 1837 he and William Bridges took a lease on an old workhouse at Rochford which became the first chapel of new group which Banyard and Bridges called the Peculiar People, a name taken from Deuteronomy 14: 2 and 1 Peter 2: 9.

It became part of the Preston Poor Law Union, formed in 1837, which took responsibility for the administration and funding of the Poor Law and built a workhouse in that area.

In The First Step to a Poor Law for Ireland ( 1837 ), Ward argued that large-scale emigration, sponsored by the state, was a precondition for the introduction of the workhouse system in Ireland.

It was part of the Leyland hundred and after 1837 became part of the Ormskirk Poor Law Union which built a workhouse and took responsibility for the poor in that area.

* August 14 – The Poor Law Amendment Act in the UK states that no able-bodied British man can receive assistance unless he enters a workhouse ( a kind of poorhouse ).

* 1852 – A workhouse is built on the island to hold petty violators in 220 cells.

In one example, Pugin contrasted a medieval monastic foundation, where monks fed and clothed the needy, grew food in the gardens – and gave the dead a decent burial – with " a panopticon workhouse where the poor were beaten, half starved and sent off after death for dissection.

George Gouldthorpe ( 1839 – 1910 ) folksinger and workhouse inmate who provided many of the songs collected by Percy Grainger of the English Folk Dance and Song Society

The workhouse test and the idea of " less eligibility " were never mentioned themselves and the recommendation of the Royal Commission that outdoor relief ( relief given outside of a workhouse ) should be abolished – was never implemented.

Workhouses were officially abolished by the Local Government Act 1929, and between 1929 – 1930 Poor Law Guardians, the " workhouse test " and the term " pauper " disappeared.

* A famous depiction of women in the Victorian workhouse – ' A scene in the Westminster Union, 1878 '

The architect G. E. Street added a chapel to Chipping Norton workhouse in 1856 – 57.

Those entering a workhouse might have joined anything from a handful to several hundred other inmates ; for instance, between 1782 and 1794 Liverpool's workhouse accommodated 900 – 1200 indigent men, women and children.

He was particularly associated with projects in Oxford, including Magdalen Bridge ( 1772 – 90 ), the city's workhouse ( 1772 – 73 ) and the Covered Market ( 1774 ), and with bridges across the River Severn including the " English Bridge ", in his native Shrewsbury 1774 ), and others at Atcham ( 1776 ) and Worcester ( 1781 ).

* Anthony O ' Reilly ( 1900 – 1923 ) volunteer during the War of Independence and on the antitreaty side during the Civil War, born in Celbridge workhouse and fostered by the Julia and Mary Cummins in Simmonstown Castle.

: Public officials have only words of warning to us – warning that we must be intensely peaceable, and they have the workhouse just back of all their warnings.

: Public officials have only words of warning to us – warning that we must be intensely peaceable, and they have the workhouse just back of all their warnings.

* Alfred Wallis ( 1855 – 1942 ) artist, died in Madron workhouse

* Fairfield Preparatory School, Loughborough, Leicestershire

Quorn is a village in Leicestershire, England, situated next to the university town of Loughborough.

Another form of rail, the edge rail, was first used by William Jessop on a line which was opened as part of the Charnwood Forest Canal between Loughborough and Nanpantan in Leicestershire in 1789.

At high the Luray Singing Tower contains a carillon of 47 bells from John Taylor & Co of Loughborough, Leicestershire, Great Britain.

Meanwhile William Jessop, a civil engineer, had used a form of edge rail successfully for an extension to the Charnwood Forest Canal at Nanpantan, Loughborough, Leicestershire in 1789.

He was made High Sheriff of Leicestershire by the King and became engaged in various skirmishes between the opposing forces, seeing action at the Battle of Hopton Heath, fighting a small battle at Cotes Bridge near Loughborough and later losing an eye to a pistol shot after an exchange near Bagworth, all in 1643.

They recruited Brian Pendleton ( born 13 April 1944, Heath Town, Wolverhampton – died 16 May 2001, Maidstone, Kent ) on rhythm guitar ; John Stax ( born John Edward Lee Fullagar, 6 April 1944, Crayford, Kent ) on bass ; and Pete Kitley, replaced by Viv Andrews ( on drums ) and then by Viv Prince ( born Vivian Martin Prince, 9 August 1941, Loughborough, Leicestershire ) on drums.

It rises near Hinckley in Leicestershire and is joined by the River Sence ( Wigston ) near Enderby before flowing through Leicester ( where it is joined by the Grand Union Canal at Aylestone ), Barrow-on-Soar, beside Loughborough, and Kegworth, flowing into the Trent near Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire.

Loughborough University ( colloquially known as Lufbra ; ) is a public research university located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England.

Loughborough ( or ) is a town within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England.

Hinckley is currently the second largest town in Leicestershire, after Loughborough ( Leicester itself being a city which is not part of the non-metropolitan county of Leicestershire ).

The regions has numerous folk clubs and host many major folk festivals, including those of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Loughborough in Leicestershire, Shrewsbury in Shropshire, Warwick and Moseley.

McGoohan attended St Vincent's school in Sheffield, but following the outbreak of World War II he was evacuated to Loughborough, Leicestershire.

RNIB College Loughborough is based in Loughborough, Leicestershire, and supports students with sight loss and other disabilities.

Shepshed was briefly linked by canal to Loughborough, and to the coalmines of West Leicestershire when the Charnwood Forest Canal was opened in 1798, but success was only short lived.

Charnwood Forest is an upland tract in north-western Leicestershire, England, bounded by Leicester, Loughborough, and Coalville.

The ECB also employs the English Test match captain Alastair Cook and other centrally contracted players, as well as being responsible for the ECB National Academy, currently based at Loughborough University in Leicestershire.

Cotes is a hamlet and very small civil parish near the town of Loughborough in Leicestershire, England, with a population of about 50.

He married Sarah Elizabeth Chester in August 1992 at Glenfield Methodist church Leicestershire and lives in Quorn in the Loughborough constituency with Sarah and their son ( born March 1999 ) and daughter ( born April 2002 ).

In 1790 Jessop founded, jointly with partners Benjamin Outram, Francis Beresford and John Wright, the Butterley Iron Works in Derbyshire to manufacture ( amongst other things ) cast-iron edge rails – a design Jessop had used successfully on a horse-drawn railway scheme for coal wagons between Nanpantan and Loughborough, Leicestershire ( 1789 ).

Loughborough Endowed Schools is a collective of three selective, independent, fee-paying public schools in the town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK.