Poverty, the poor law and the workhouse by Professor John Beckett

Laying the foundation stone of Nottingham Workhouse, 1899
Laying the foundation stone at Nottingham Workhouse, 17 April 1899 (photograph courtesy of the North East Midlands Photographic Record).

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The North East Midlands Photographic Record (Picture the Past)

There are black and white photographs of the old workhouse of the Nottingham Poor Law Union (now demolished) on Mansfield Road, Nottingham, circa 1890s. Also pictures of Mansfield, Newark (Claypole), Radford, Retford and Worksop workhouses.

Bassetlaw Museum

The Edgar Welchman collection includes photographs of Retford and Worksop workhouses and group photographs of the Retford and Worksop Board of Guardians:

Mansfield Museum

Holds some photographs of Mansfield workhouse.