Sub-series PLU/1/7/2 - Workhouse Committee and Workhouse Visiting Committee minutes

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PLU/1/7/2

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Workhouse Committee and Workhouse Visiting Committee minutes

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  • 1903-1930 (Creation)

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12 volumes

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Name of creator

(1906-1914)

Administrative history

The Visiting Committee appears to have been a full committee that had an intermittent life along with the Workhouse Committee (see Relationships below). After 1914 there were several visiting sub-committees which inspected various aspects of the workhouse and reported directly to the Workhouse Committee.
Replaced the Workhouse Committee (?mid-19thc-(1906); then was replaced by the Workhouse Committee, which was reinstated in 1914.

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(?mid-19thc-1906; 1914-1930)

Administrative history

By the 1920s this committee comprised 18 elected members plus quarterly members (the remaining 65 Guardians were divided into 4 groups and each group sat on the committee for three months of the year). There was a changing array of sub-committees that reported directly to the Workhouse Committee, for example: the Farm and Garden Committee; Provisions and Clothing Committee; Timber Committee; Works and Repairs Committee; and Entertainment Committee.
Replaced by the Workhouse Visiting Committee (1906-1914); then reinstated in 1914 to replace the Workhouse Visiting Committee.

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Approved bound minutes. Most volumes are indexed

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  • English

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