Hi seem to have gone from Sculcoates workhouse to cemetries!!
To clarify the original query; the Sculcoates union workhouse became Kingston General hospital and has now become a school.
From the Sculcoates Neighbourhood Assn newsletter.
The opening of Endeavour High School.
The site it occupies already had a long and important history. Many will remember it
as the location of Kingston General Hospital, but the building itself began life, 1843-5,
as Sculcoates Union Workhouse, designed by the distinguished Hull architect, H. F.
Lockwood.
It was a fine piece of Victorian Gothic architecture, costing what was then the
immense sum of £11,000. Even though its purpose was to house people who in those
harsh times were bluntly called paupers, the Hull Advertiser was so overwhelmed by
its appearance that it described it as a
beautiful and immense structure which would
not disgrace the residence of a nobleman.
It was a huge organization with all the
facilities including wash houses, tailors' shops
and shoemakers' shops required for its
inmates, originally 500 but later many more.
Carried away by enthusiasm, the reporter
went completely over the top. The paupers'
rooms he wrote, were spacious, light, airy and
commanded views which would be envied by many of the town's wealthy inhabitants.
Yet it was no fun being a pauper with no option but to enter the workhouse.
Conditions and attitudes improved and the words 'pauper' and 'workhouse' were
eventually consigned to history books. Sculcoates Union Workhouse became the
Beverley Road Institution and, after 1948, with the introduction of the National
Health Service, Kingston General Hospital
