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So the baby didnt even have have a name?  how sad 
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As hard as it was, it was a form of social caring and shudder the thought of the alternatives for the poor people.
God help us,
Come yourself,
Don't send Jesus,
This is no place for children.
Bertieone.
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yes bert shudder the alternatives....mainly prostitution and death ...at least in a workhouse there was a bed and a meal for work that was hard labour....very sad...but am sure it was law for local parishes to provide via the poor relief act...
'Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.' Dr Seuss.
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Talking of death, did St Catherine's have their own burial ground, according to the link, some workhouses had their own cemetery.
God help us,
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Don't send Jesus,
This is no place for children.
Bertieone.
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I heard there was a mortuary under the small carpark but they havent dug it up, in fact the new building is being erected there. Unclear whether this was a workhouse or hospital mortuary, though!?
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Not Birkenhead based but i read an extremley interesting book, a while ago. 'Shadows of the Workhouse' by Jennifer Worth. Available from libraries. 
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Ducko - Birkenhead Institute?
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Old pubs
by Margymoo4 - 6th May 2026 3:49pm
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Old pubs
by Margymoo4 - 6th May 2026 3:49pm
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