Newmarket: Former 1837 Union Workhouse

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Newmarket: Former 1837 Union Workhouse

Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 6 Jul 2008

This building on Exning Road has been converted to a residential development and the estate agents' ads coyly refer to it as a "gated period conversion". What they don't say is that the building started out in life in 1837 as the Newmarket Union Workhouse and it remained as such until at least 1903. By 1927 it had acquired the name White Lodge but was still a Poor Law Institution. But by 1938 it had become the White Lodge Hospital and was used as an emergency hospital during the Second World War. After the war it became part of Newmarket's General Hospital until it was surplus to requirements and sold off.

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