Flashback: Last refuge for poor; Tony Barrett on a new book about the city's workhouses.(Features)

From: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) | Date: November 26, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Tony Barrett

LIVERPOOL'S Metropolitan Cathedral is one of the city's most famous landmarks, but the site on which it stands was once home to a much more forbidding building.

The Liverpool workhouse, or Brownlow Hill Institution, stood there from 1769 to 1931, when its demolition started to make way for Sir Edward Lutyen's ambitious - and ultimately uncompleted - Roman Catholic cathedral project. At its largest the Liverpool workhouse was one of the bi...

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