1830s Gallery

Grace Darling, rowing with her father

Grace Horsley Darling, daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands, seen here rowing with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838 -- together with her father she saved 13 people from the wreck

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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Guiltcross Union Workhouse, Kenninghall, Norfolk

The Guiltcross Union Workhouse, designed by William Thorold, was erected in 1836-7 at Kenninghall, Norfolk. After its closure in 1902 the site was acquired by the Rev Harold Burden and reopened in 1904 as the Eastern Counties or East Harling Inebriates Reformatory for treating alcoholics. The site housed German prisoners during the First World War

© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection

Union Workhouse, Thame, Oxfordshire

A view of the Thame Union workhouse from one of its internal yards with the workhouse chapel in the background. Posed for the photographer are what appear to be the workhouse master (standing, right), the matron (seated, centre), and two female staff in nurse's uniform (seated). The other standing figures may be members of the master's family. The workhouse, built in 1836 to a design by George Wilkinson, later became Rycotewood College

© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection