Homelessness Collection (page 5)

The Unemployed and the Workhouse, satirical postcard
Two workmen are digging a hole outside a workhouse. A dishevelled tramp figure asks them why they are working when the workhouse would give them a home for free

Vagrant and policeman outside Truth Offices
A policeman shines his torch down on a vagrant asleep on the pavement outside the offices of the Truth weekly newspaper

Union Workhouse, Limerick, Ireland, perspective view
The Union workhouse at Limerick, Ireland, was designed by George Wilkinson and opened in 1841. This 1847 view shows the workhouse after proposed enlargements

Irish 800-pauper workhouse, ground plan
Ground plan of the model plan for Irish union workhouses housing up to 800 inmates. The plan was devised by George Wilkinson, the Poor Law Commissioners architect in Ireland

Irish 800-pauper workhouse, perspective view
Perspective view of the model plan for Irish union workhouses housing up to 800 inmates. The plan was devised by George Wilkinson, the Poor Law Commissioners architect in Ireland

Hull Poor Law Guardians
A Board of Guardians was elected annually by the ratepayers of Hull, Yorkshire, to administer poor relief in the city. This group portrait of the 1912 Board - all men - was taken in front of the main

Clerkenwell Parish Workhouse, London
The Clerkenwell parish workhouse on Farringdon Road (formerly Coppice Row), Central London, erected in 1727

Vagrants sleeping rough in London
A group of vagrants sleeping rough under an archway in front of some large gates, somewhere in London

Homeless in St James s
Early morning - the Enumerator taking the census in St Jamess Park. The homeless are woken and interviewed

Policeman discovering sleeping waif on a doorstep
A policeman discovering a sleeping waif on a doorstep

Homelessness
Abject scene of homelessness at Trafalgar Square

Down and Out
A homeless girl is found in the streets : a crowd gathers, a bobby shines his bull s- eye lantern

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