GORDON ROAD WORKHOUSE, CAMBERWELL
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : ACC/2912 |
Held at | : London Metropolitan Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma › |
Full title | : GORDON ROAD WORKHOUSE, CAMBERWELL |
Date(s) | : 1880-1907 |
Level of description | : Collection |
Extent | : 0.05 linear metres |
Name of creator(s) | : Camberwell Board of Guardians Gordon Road Workhouse x Camberwell Reception Centre |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Camberwell became a Poor Law Parish on 28 October 1835, overseen by an elected Board of Guardians. In 1878 the Camberwell Board of Guardians constructed a new workhouse on Gordon Road. It was intended to house 743 able bodied inmates. Males chopped wood or broke stones; while females were employed in laundry work.
In 1930 the Gordon Road Workhouse was taken over by the London County Council and became the Camberwell Reception Centre for homeless men. The building has now been converted to flats.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Register of deaths at the Gordon Road Workhouse, Camberwell, 1880-1907.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
One volume
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright: City of London
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received in 1991 (Acc/2912).
Allied Materials
Related material:
For other registers and minutes of the Gordon Road Workhouse see the papers of the Camberwell Board of Guardians, references CABG/123-131 and CABG/176-184.
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
April to June 2009
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