Holborn Union Workhouse Farm and Gas Works, Mitcham
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Holborn Union Workhouse Farm and Gas Works, Mitcham
The workhouse farm located near the Holborn Union workhouse, Mitcham, Surrey. Pigs feed from troughs while workhouse inmates stand nearby. A gasometer is visible at the left. The farm used inmate labour to provide products such as milk and bacon for workhouse use. It also incorporated a gas works which generated gas for the workhouse
Media ID 4464881
© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
1896 Bacon Conditions Employment Energy Fuel Gasometer Heating Holborn Homeless Homelessness Inmate Inmates Labour Milk Mitcham Pigs Poverty Products Skills Surrey Troughs Workhouse Workhouses
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