Former Croydon Union Workhouse
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Former Croydon Union Workhouse
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 5 Jan 2018
The workhouse here evolved, as many did, into a hospital (the workhouse infirmary was typically the last bit to remain functioning and at the abolition of the Poor Law in 1929 would pass into local authority control as a hospital). It was closed in the early years of the twenty-first century, the site being redeveloped for flats with only the main block, seen here, surviving.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.389575
Longitude
-0.104137