Former offices of the Guardians of the Poor, Peckham Road
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Former offices of the Guardians of the Poor, Peckham Road
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 7 Oct 2015
Nearby, across the road, was the Workhouse for Camberwell, and the Camberwell House asylum to which pauper patients would be sent. The wording on the sundial reads "Do Today's Work Today": a reference to the stubborn association of poverty with indolence (which can be traced back at least as far as Elizabethan panics over "sturdy beggars" when the Poor Law was set up), that was at the foundations of the New Poor Law of 1834, and which continues to surface today.
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Image Location
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51.473856
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