| After being whipped and branded on the scaffold, he had to stay in a workhouse for 12 years. |
| Young Oliver Twist is left in the care of a workhouse near London when his mother dies bringing him into the world. |
| The workhouse was built within the current grounds of Daisy Hill in 1841 to provide accommodation for the poorly and sick in the area. |
| This need was satisfied around 1837 when casual wards were provided within each workhouse union. |
| Unemployed millhands and weavers were faced with the choice of the workhouse or starvation, and rioted. |
| No matter how we felt about the workhouse the inmates who had been there quite awhile, like myself, had learnt not to even mention running away. |
