Claypole Union Workhouse
Peter Hammond an Archaeologist by profession explained that Sir Robert Heron, of Stubton Hall, had the foresight to set up a Workhouse in Claypole in 1821.
On Tuesday October 29th the Club was treated to a talk by Peter Hammond on the Claypole Union Work House.
Peter, a member of the Sherwood Sunrisers Club, is an Archaeologist by profession. He explained that Sir Robert Heron, of Stubton Hall, had the foresight to set up a Workhouse in Claypole in 1821. This three storey stone building at Claypole Bridge was used for accommodating able bodied paupers. The Union comprised 20 parishes, five in Nottinghamshire and fifteen in Lincolnshire. Attached to the Workhouse was a sixty-acre farm and a one acre kitchen garden on which the inmates worked. Its farm was sold off but the kitchen garden was retained. By 1904, its capacity was 250 inmates. The building was sold off in 1913 and converted into about twenty cottages. It was demolished in 1978.
Peter explained what life was like in this workhouse and how it was kept in good order where inmates received a good diet and were quite well looked after. Some were unmarried mothers who had been made pregnant by their married employers.
Through his research, he discovered that one of his distant relatives had been brought up as a child in the Claypole Workhouse.
A very enlightening evening made even more interesting by Peter’s enthusiasm for history and the tracing of his family tree.
Dave Strange
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