The workhouse
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Machynlleth The workhouse |
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| A new workhouse for Machynlleth Union | ||
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Union was not at all keen to build a new workhouse but the authorities
insisted. It looked for a while as if the Machynlleth Union might be disbanded. The Union had difficulty obtaining a proper site for a new building site and the necessary money to build it. |
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The new
workhouse, located at the end of Maengwyn Even after the opening of the new workhouse the Union still paid small sums of money to people in the area who were in temporary difficulties. Those with longer term problems, though, had to report to the workhouse, and their belongings could be sold by the Union and the money used to cover some of the cost of their care. More about Machynlleth's workhouse...
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Street,
was eventually completed in 1860.