History & The Arts
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas Day In The Workhouse
...a subscription for plum-pudding, porter & c. East London Union - Answer to application: We intend carrying out the order of the poor-law commissioners to the very letter, but I think that some little extras may be allowed in the evening. There are inmates of both houses, Aldsgate and Bishopsgate, about 500 adults and 250 children farmed out at Aubin's Asylum, Norwood....