workhouse

Once released from prison, she emigrated to New York where in 1902 there is a record of her being placed in a workhouse as punishment for vagrancy.

In the late 1840s, the ground in south Belfast was used to bury poor people from a nearby workhouse.

"I've never experienced anything like that in my life. It was like a Victorian workhouse. The nurses were saying how bad it is, and they were saying they just had to crack on with it."

The workhouse site became the location for Nottingham City Hospital and the chapel remained open for workers and patients, closing when a new one was opened.

The answer is simple: It’s a workhouse and is needed,” Mr Loranger said.