Conversion work underway at Lincoln Grange
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Conversion work underway at Lincoln Grange
Image: © Richard Law Taken: 3 Feb 2019
Lincoln Grange was most recently a nursing home, but prior to that had been the Beeches Hospital since the 1930s, and was built originally in the mid 1870s as the Madeley Union Workhouse. It's currently being converted to residential use. The site is quite extensive, and is subject to a Grade II listing https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101391962-lincoln-grange-formerly-madeley-union-workhouse-the-gorge#.XI65hCj7TIU which was granted in 2007. It was built to replace the nearby Image, which was seriously overcrowded, and by 1881 housed a total of 112 male & female residents, aged between 20 and early 80s, mostly described as 'paupers', along with a few of their young offspring. Many were locals, hailing from Madeley, Ironbridge, Bridgnorth, Broseley, Much Wenlock, Wellington, Shifnal, Shrewsbury etc, but a few came from further afield, and included one chap from Llanelli, a Jarrow man, a Yorkshireman from Harrogate and even one George Harley from Kinsale in County Cork, Ireland.
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Image Location
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